2012
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December 2012
- Retrotechtacular: Fluid Coupling
- Ice record single needs six hours in the deep freeze before you can listen
- Wave that roman candle around without risking your digits
- Make your own plastic friction welder
- Tamagotchi hacking, in depth
- Building a hardware security module
- Ringing in the new year with an Arduino and Calcium Carbide
- USB microscope used for soldering very small things
- Breaking the new Neo Geo handheld wide open
- [Prusa] interviews a whole bunch of RepRappers
- Engadget trying out some crowd-funding
- Bluetooth hack for Serioux Panda speakers
- Make your own machinable wax
- Nerf Sentry Gun for the Apocalypse
- A portable CNC mill
- Ask Hackaday: How do you give a project away?
- DIY SMD stencils made with a craft cutter
- Overclocking microcontrollers
- Making a TARDIS bigger on the inside
- Toner transfer for resist and silk screen using printable vinyl
- Buzzed Buzzer gives you a Breathalyzer test while ringing in the new year
- Raspberry Pi used as a Squeezebox server
- Interfacing a GPU with a CPU
- Magnets keep the shower curtain from groping you
- Train set built in a suitcase does more than you’d think
- Put that headphone jack anywhere you want it
- Router jig for a perfect circle
- Portable audio rig that turned out great
- UPDATE: Roll your own GPS can now track twice as many satellites
- How to write your own Minesweeper solver
- Robot can barely move with so much hardware strapped to it
- A concrete table with a little blinky built in
- Olin College Penny Press
- Hackaday Links: Christmas Eve, 2012
- Pulling the LCD screens out of a MyVu glasses display
- Animated holiday wreath from a string of LED lights
- Sensor sleeve makes tablet use easier and benefitial for disabled children
- Log coasters made with just two tools
- An even more useless machine
- Fabricating hardware from the original arcade Pong schematics
- FireHero: Raspberry Pi Controlled Pyrotechnics
- Building a tornado in a bottle
- Adding task lighting inside a desk
- Adding a timer feature to this desk lamp
- Webcam eye-tracking moves robot-powered Skittles candy
- Making graphene with a DVD burner
- Wooden box repeats rhythm used when knocking on the lid
- Raspberry Pi laptop is just a little too big for a pocket
- Open source software defined radio transceiver
- Arduino compatible Christmas tree
- 3D Printing Records
- We are the Borg. We will add heat and distance sensing to your vision.
- Tesla Model S handle dispenses beer; hides when done
- 3D printed Christmas cookies
- Scavenged tube television makes a nice fish tank
- Mains rated solid state relay test box
- pyMCU test project looks like a Minecraft mob
- Modifying an EEG headset for lucid dreaming
- Custom MOTD for the Raspberry Pi
- Two computer vision builds from Cornell
- Which way do non-polarized film capacitors go? There is an answer.
- Comprehensive home PCB fabrication tutorial
- Stellarino brings Wiring-style coding to the Stellaris Launchpad
- Months of failure lead up to this EL panel dimmer that pulses to the music
- Sound reactive Christmas tree makes folks happy
- Reverse geocache based on STM32 and GPS wristwatch
- Stellaris Launchpad and booster packs used as frequency analyzer
- O Christmas tree of digital logic
- Man proposes to girlfriend with an arc reactor
- Building Pong for an 8-pin micro
- Manuel the Scottish moose speaks your tweets
- Heavy metal computer case desk
- Hacked together NAS in a box
- Using newlib with Stellaris Launchpad
- Organ pedals fill in when your bass player is missing
- Electric clothes drier repair heats things up
- Welding with over a hundred A123 Lithium cells
- Build a $360 synthetic aperture radar with MIT’s OpenCourseware
- The Hexapod Hexacopter
- Tindie gets Fundraisers for kickstarting and group buys
- 244 9 Volt Batteries in Series – Arcing Ensues!
- Watermelon air boat
- More details about laser cut gingerbread houses
- Silent HTPC build is an art piece for the livingroom
- Repair your ice maker motor without buying a whole new assembly
- Tea-bagging an Arduino
- Automated PCB panelization
- Custom desk is a custom computer case
- Using arcade monitors with the Raspberry Pi
- Electronically controlled NFC tag
- ATTannenbaum
- Beautiful tube amp uses a TV tube
- Displaying text on random strings of Christmas lights
- [Bunnie] builds a laptop for himself, hopefully us
- Solving a Rubick’s Cube with LEGO and popsicle sticks
- Adventures in mold making and making your own enclosures
- A thermal imaging camera for your phone
- Leveraging the GPU to accelerate the Linux kernel
- Self-balancing unicycle using Arduino and Sparkfun IMU
- Raspberry Pi used to automate a dimmable light bulb
- Webmote: control anything with web-based remote
- A Hexapod Robot Made from Scrap
- Deck the cubes
- DSLR trick lets you change focus after taking the picture
- IFF system keeps you from shooting your friends
- Almost building an engine from hardware store parts
- Hackaday Links: December 13th, 2012
- How to used an Android device with a shattered screen
- Using two chargers with one laptop
- ARM powered rack mount USB test equipment
- Python can be your best friend when it comes to binary math
- Rooting your AT&T U-verse modem
- A pair of N64 portables
- Converting a Chinese laser cutter to work with Mach3
- Macro assembly for AVR chips
- Twitter radio
- LiPo internal resistance measurement tool
- Super slim wristwatch build
- Unlocking Verizon Galaxy Note II and Galaxy S3
- Observe a satellite’s Morse Code message today!
- Tablet rig takes sheet music digital
- Raspberry Pi Hacking, Commando Style
- Digital IR Theremin
- Garage door opener using Siri and Raspberry Pi
- Virtual chess uses glove controllers
- Table golf
- Open Compute Project Hosts Hackathon
- Retrotechtacular: A 1983 walking robot called ODEX-1
- Arduino Esplora makes a great controller
- Rolling your own furnace controller
- Building a tiny arcade cabinet from a Game Boy Advance
- An interview with the creator of Slic3r
- Breadboard friendly FPGAs
- Beautiful table made from a bowling alley
- Level converters to make all your hardware (5.5V and under) play with each other
- Standalone air quality monitor based around Raspberry Pi
- Homemade tank joins the battle in Syria
- Web scraping tutorial
- OLED name badge with rechargeable LiPo cell
- Simulating CRT or Vector displays for more realistic emulation
- Transmit FM using Raspberry Pi and no additional hardware
- Morse Code Transceiver Based on Gameboy Color Camera
- An automat of wireless 3D printers
- 10 ways to etch PCBs at home
- FUBAR Labs builds a rocket engine
- The Burrito Bomber
- USB NeXT Keyboard
- 160 Mac Minis, One Rack
- More Fun with Syma 107 Reverse Engineering
- [Staci Elaan]’s awesome portable tesla coils.
- Bird buggy soothes a screeching parrot
- Building a spectrum analyzer with parallel processing
- Driving a WS2811 RGB LED pixel
- Autonomous helicopter works like a Wii remote
- $250,000 hard drive teardown
- Online radiation monitoring station
- Building an ARM cross compiler on OSX
- Design a Gingerbread House in CAD, then cut pieces with a laser
- Mass storage bootloader for Stellaris Launchpad
- Printing press made from Ikea furniture
- Dithering in Processing
- Tutorial designs 3D printed cases for your projects
- Backyard Zamboni keeps the best diy ice rink in town
- 25 GPUs brute force 348 billion hashes per second to crack your passwords
- Voice controlled video game uses “Biu” and “ahh” for control
- Acoustic levitation of water droplets
- Voltage logger does it the right way
- Sunrise alarm clock uses DCF77 for perfect time
- Hackaday Links: December 5, 2012
- How to configure Eclipse for the Stellaris Launchpad
- The story behind developing the Sifteo from an engineer’s perspective
- The beginnings of a geeky wristwatch
- Use an old laptop as a second desktop display
- Air Harp using the Leap Motion
- Common Linux tools on Android without root by installing BusyBox
- RC car transforms into RC robot
- An introduction to vector displays
- Japanese Drumming Sensei
- Building a pirate cannon for fun and plunder
- Simplifying fabrication of soft robots
- DCF77 signal filtering and decoding
- Clock display taller than you is just what your living room has been missing
- A study of GCC and the TI Stellaris
- RS-485 node control for Arduino
- Syncing two strands of G35 Christmas lights
- Cute little amplifier has a tube pre
- Self balancing unicycle built from old scooter
- MSP430 bit banged USB 1.1
- ODROID-U2 is latest barebones board begging to be used
- Dyson engineers’ hacks traverse robot obstacle course
- Gadgeteer plant monitor wants it wet and photogenic
- Christmas light controller is its own percussion section
- Inductive charger inside the case of this iPhone 4s
- Inventing networking protocols for dozens of Arduinos
- Teaching the Speak & Spell four (and more) letter words
- Turning four smaller helicopters into one larger quadcopter
- Making 3D printing easy at the Staples copy center
- Man tracks children using a quadcopter
- Raspberry Pi Model A coming soon
- Hiding an inductive charging station inside furniture
- Retrotechtacular: Similarities of Wave Behavior
- Pixar-style lamp project is a huge animatronics win
- Recording audio with Chrome using HTML5
- Plan 9 on the Raspberry Pi
- Raspberry Pi Quadcopter
- Getting rid of a tangled web of phone chargers
November 2012
- St. Optimus of Prime
- Minecraft clock radio puts a creeper head next to your bed
- Open source capactive charger resurrects an electric skateboard
- LED Pocket Watch
- Guitar foot controller uses DSP for audio effects
- Color LED matrix VU meter shows how to use FFT with Arduino
- Coin-op Sega Rally used to race RC cars
- Hackaday Links: November 29th, 2012
- Through hole plating and milling at home
- MariaMole – an alternate Arduino IDE aimed at advanced users
- phatIO uses file system to control external hardware
- Science fair project sorts recyclables
- Burglar suspected of using Arduino-Onity hack to rob hotel rooms
- Printing puzzles with plastic parts
- Conductive filament means printable sensors
- Hacking BodyBugg fitness sensors to get around subscription fee
- 100 meter spring reverb makes us hear satanic voices
- MOD player for the Stellaris Launchpad
- Internet radio occupies an 80-year-old radio case
- Adding Node.js based sensors to the Parrot AR drone
- Hackerspace Tour: Kwartzlab
- Headphone light show
- Turning toy pianos into MIDI keyboards
- Glockentar: A Guitar + Glockenspiel Mashup
- Cheap biquad antenna extends LAN between apartments
- Injecting power into a WiFi dongle for the Raspberry Pi
- RC truck has working windows, steering wheel, and much more
- Spare parts pulled together into a Nixie clock
- DIY TSA Backscatter Body Scanner
- Pulse oximeter displays blood oxygen levels on a PC
- Kickstarter incurs the wrath of Arduino creator
- [Prusa]’s nozzle prints polycarbonate, PEEK, & nylon
- Hola! From a Spanish Speaking Drawing Arm
- Electronically augmented Foosball brings competition to the office
- LEGO LP Player
- A folded horn enclosure to make the most out of a subwoofer
- Android VOIP phone and Raspberry Pi mate for an intriguing PBX setup
- Personal cooling using a closed loop water system
- $5 toy car upgraded to record the ride in HD
- Minecraft Coming to Raspberry Pi
- Abstracting transistors into high-level design
- USB Keyboard Becomes an AVR Programmer
- Tiny MAME cabinet built from Raspberry Pi
- Flash controller works with point and shoot cameras
- Making a touchless vibrator with reverse engineering
- Beating a plowshare into an AK-47
- Raspberry Pi camera board coming early next year
- An Inexpensive Manual Pick-and-Place Machine
- Programming a Game Boy while playing Pokemon
- Kick off the Christmas decorating with a review of 3 types of LED strings
- Soap, candles, and toiletries from deer fat
- Simple hack plays any sound as your door chime
- High tech tagging adds graffiti to poles
- A pair of briefcase boombox builds
- Art installation plots every game of Lunar Lander that is played
- Wireless speaker made using Arduinos and 2.4 GHz tranceivers
- Quick and easy personal evaporative cooler
- Arduino data logger maps out the potholes on your morning commute
- monoPong: A CMOS 1-D Pong
- A suitcase full of tunes
- Bilbio-mat is an awesome yet simple used book vending machine
- Beefing up a smoke alarm system with video, temperature, and connectivity
- MechBass: a robotic bass guitar that sounds fantastic
- Button automatically tells people to bugger off in Gmail
- 8x8x8 LED cube and the board that drives it
- Hackaday Links November 22nd 2012
- Adding a SCART input to a console VGA converter
- Dead NES controller used as a Makey Makey shield
- Kitchen island monitors and distributes home brew beer
- Boiling acid used to see chip die
- Update on [James’] bipedal robot
- Giving Siri control of some smart bulbs
- Automated resistor sorter puts them into small plastic tubes
- Let the 3d printing patent wars begin!
- A better way to hack iClass RFID readers
- World’s oldest functioning digital computer reminds us of a telephone exchange
- .NET Micro framework used for a prompt-based computer
- Dimming the living room lights using your TV remote
- Discrete 6502 processor sucked into Linux by a BeagleBone
- Outlet charging station retrofitted with the guts of a WiFi router
- Pick and place that can’t pick or place… but it looks very promising
- More continuous wave radar fun
- Cutting styrofoam with a CNC machine and turning it into aluminum
- Bathroom fan that switches itself on when it gets steamy or smelly
- Raspberry Pi reaches critical mass as XBMC hardware
- MSP430 Launchpad Game of Life shield
- Tearing down the Wii U
- Optimizing your electronics projects with a camera
- How to build OpenOCD with Stellaris Launchpad support
- Launch day Wii U homebrew is very encouraging
- [Jeri] uses light bulbs in an oscillator
- One dimensional PONG, take two
- Controlling a quadcopter with a Leap Motion
- Making an overhead camera gantry, take 2
- EVE radio breakout board for the Raspberry Pi
- Wii U to be released this weekend, Wii U GamePad to be torn apart on workbenches across the land
- Forever.fm: Infinite Beat-matched Music
- The New Template Has Arrived!
- Large area x-ray detector
- Python script lets you monitor multiple serial devices at once
- POV wheels for a longboard
- Raspberry Pi driven Polargraph exhibits high precision drawing ability
- AVR Minecraft server lets you toggle pins from the virtual world
- Emulating a student clicker with an Arduino
- Porsche 911 made electric
- Google Books team open sources their book scanner
- Hackaday Links: November 15, 2012
- In-depth comparison at STM32 F3 and F4 discovery boards
- Roomba and virtual walls make up this theme family Halloween costume
- An umbrella stand that tells you the weather forecast
- Variometer build for gliding aircraft
- SquareWear sewable microcontroller board
- An Extemely Unique Weather Display
- Turning 3D shutter glasses into automatic sunglasses
- Demystifying camcorder CRT viewfinders
- A wearable Pipboy 3000
- Mesh networking with multiple Raspberry Pi boards
- Put your dev board to work as a demoscene display
- Wristband RFID unlocks car door and starts engine
- Playing Led Zeppelin on a C64
- Make dual pin header footprints into breadboard friendly DIP
- A nostalgic look at what a 13 year old can do with a C64
- 7400 Logic Competition winners announced
- Wireless water heater monitor uses whatever was lying around
- The wedding band: milling titanium and wrapping it in palladium
- Hand soldering BGA parts should be a circus act
- Cornell ECE 4760 lecture videos now online
- How to setup a Hackerspace from someone who’s done it before
- Building a mechanical counter out of scrap wood
- Birthday badges teach kids how to solder
- Robot stroller lets baby steer without mowing down other toddlers
- Developing a thermostat for a heat pump that only has a timer
- Building a thermal imaging sensor from scratch
- Giving an apartment keyless entry
- Turning the Hexbug spider into a line-following robot
- $4 volt meter from a dollar store pedometer
- Steam-powered pickup winder
- Linux on a Nspire CAS CX Calculator
- Lucky Cat Hit Counter
- WAV music player uses an ATtiny
- Blending real objects with 3D prints
- NASA is 3D printing rocket engine parts
- Upgrading a voice recorder with a hex editor
- The ultimate low-cost dev board
- Heat-seeking firebot drowns out the flames
- Nikon WU-1a WiFi dongle hacking
- Scripting to automate your mindless Android games
- Adding charging back to old apple accessories
- Laser charged glowing display
- Camera gantry rides on garage door tracks
- Adafruit’s got a new board, an official Arduino
- Hackaday Links: November 9, 2012
- Double-kettle boiling rig for and easier brew day
- Storing 32 bits of data in a piece of glass
- Netduino gets a huge upgrade
- Hardsync – DDR Reimagined for the C64
- KegDroid makes drinking beer more fun
- Zelda is the princess, now Link is too
- The band’s name in lights, RGB LEDs to be exact.
- Raspberry Pi gets RISC OS, can now play Elite
- Bust-a-Move physical controller
- Arduino MP3 Jukebox
- More CRT fun with the Scope Clock
- Hands free hot air station
- Building a bipolar supply from a boost converter
- Measuring SMD parts with a home brew version of Smart Tweezers
- Nyan Cat built into the wall of a house
- Developing with eBay-sourced ARM + LCD dev boards
- Do not look into 12 Watt UV lamp with remaining eye
- Atari punk stick puts a synth in a joystick
- Upverter 2.0 Launches
- Ikea provides a great UV exposure box
- Reliving 1977’s cutting-edge computer with the Pocket Mini Computer
- Dumpster diving nets 100 Arduino-powered motor controllers
- Before you throw out that pumpkin, make a dragon-o-lantern
- 7400 frequency counter
- Custom circuit drives a small round CRT display
- Two-player Tic-Tac-Toe from logic chips
- Building your own Fusion Drive
- Collection of Nixie bar graphs bump to the beat
- [Lou’s] haircut really sucks
- Beginner project: Color Sensing with RGB LEDs and a photocell
- LED fun and Light Painting with the pyMCU
- MR-808 is a mechanical version of the most famous drum machine
- Skittles sorting machine sorts Skittles, keeps the band happy
- [Jeri] shows off a delta sigma ADC
- Thinking Cap is also Party Hat
- Hackaday Links: November 4, 2012
- Turning the Raspberry Pi into a cocktail MAME coffee table
- Hacked farm toy plays simon
- Capacitive touch business card
- On not proving the twin prime conjecture with AutoCAD
- The smallest NES controller ever
- Prosthetic foot and ankle have amazingly natural movement
- Chromium on the Nexus7
- hijinks at 50,000 amps
- Vodafone USB 3G modem driver from mbed
- Nixie clock that doesn’t skimp on the number of tubes
- Computers Not Candy with The Geek Group
- Pull-string most useless machine
- ATmega1284 as an 8-voice 32 kHz synthesizer
- Building a 100 MHz frequency counter
- Laptop motherboard reborn as a low-wattage server
- Turning a 600 mil chip to 300 mil
- How computers work, starting with transistor gates
- BeagleBone powers this networked LED marquee
- Controlling Google TV from a Raspberry Pi (or other networked devices)
- One-button audiobook player made from a Raspberry Pi
- Hacking an old radar gun to interface with a laptop
- Playing video games on your office phone
- Hackaday’s official Kickstarter policy
- Discrete FPGA will probably win the 7400 logic competition
October 2012
- Hackaday Links: October 31st, 2012
- OLPC tablet distribution proves concepts laid out in ‘The Diamond Age’
- Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robot costumes make party conversation awkward
- Cheap electronic dartboard hacked to use Android for scoring
- Can you believe this Portal gun was built from scratch?
- Fembot costume includes smoking nipples
- Computer tracking of billiard balls
- PWM on the Stellaris Launchpad
- DIY spot welder makes metalwork easy
- A Scary Pumpkin Pi
- Happy Halloween!
- Nyan Cat hat will be the hit of the party…. for about one minute
- DSO Quad contest has a quartet of cash prizes
- Halloween Props: Monster in a box
- Scrapped DVD player turns into a full featured clock
- Optimus Prime keeps a vigilant watch over the hen-house
- Bluetooth control for your DSLR or just about any other IR operated device
- Extracting data with keyboard emulation
- Tablet interacts with magnets, how does that work?
- Myst book plays Myst, doesn’t transport you to other ages
- Guide to developing with the Stellaris Launchpad on a Linux box
- Pumpkin Tetris inspired by our own LED Jack-o-lantern
- Halloween Props: Ghoul in the box puts on a pretty good show
- How NOT to make ground-hugging fog
- Semi-professional board assembly for your workshop
- A collection of hands to inspire your Halloween animatronics
- DIY pick and place builds boards, is awesome
- QR clock is unreadable by humans and computers alike
- Bora board teaches binary hardware
- Hackaday Retro edition: The Macintosh SE/30
- MakiBox turns plastic pellets into 3D objects
- RC Airplane Made from Political signs
- Making a phono preamp for a first electronics project
- OpenPLC, for industrial automation to Halloween displays
- Homebrew guitar tuner also includes MIDI out
- Draw your own vinyl beats
- Halloween Props: a spooky mirror
- AM Chiptunes played by a modified antenna analyzer
- DARPA funded Robot Ninja Warrior?
- PCA9517 i2c translator a perfect companion for Raspberry Pi hardware add-ons
- Find a way to stop robocalls to grab this $50k prize
- Tell us what development board you love
- Small server for model trains
- Gyrocam keeps the horizon level even when the camera isn’t
- LEDs fade to the music using a Python filter
- A PIC powered pair of electronic dice
- Laptop LCD resurrection gets some clean packaging
- LV0 encryption key cracks current and future PlayStation 3 firmware
- Fixing a first generation GuruPlug’s cooling problems
- A beautiful pinhole camera takes wonderful photos
- Rooting a NeoTV set top box from the couch
- Motion sensing fog machine
- Typing with a MIDI drum set
- Electronic demon costume is surprisingly unnerving
- Automatic Airsoft Turret
- [Ben Heck] builds his smallest 360 laptop ever
- Rasperry Pi: Now mostly open source
- Launching a balloon and not landing in the ocean
- Building a better software defined radio (and transmitting as well)
- Super Serious Garage Door Opener
- Metroid helmet takes Halloween costuming to a higher level
- Driving an LCD character display using custom HID codes
- Hacking Facebook to remove the social value facade
- Brute force used to crack a key logger’s security code
- Scratch-built motor uses a clever design
- .NET for the STM32 F4 Discovery board
- Rewiring a free carnival sign
- Graphing the efficiencies of LED light strips
- Controlling a cockroach leg with your mind
- Exploring the Mandelbrot set in real time
- Traffic camera countermeasure
- A TTL timer project of yore
- TinyMatrix derivative uses PIC instead of AVR
- Battling most useless machine gets an expressive upgrade
- Hackerspace intro: Skullspace and AssentWorks in Winnipeg
- Automate your tea time
- Portal gun hack approaches 1.5 million views. More fun hacks to come!
- We’re *this* close to a real Pip-Boy
- Add an Arduino to a Google+ Hangout
- Finally, turning plastic pellets into 3D printer filament
- Halloween Light Show Gets an Upgrade
- Giving the Arduino deques, vectors and streams with the standard template library
- Hacked Kobo Becomes a Weather Display
- Debugging the Stellaris with OpenOCD
- 4096 LEDs means the biggest LED cube ever
- RPi Video with Pygame
- Making people pay for their beer at parties
- Learning neuroscience with cockroach legs
- Continental Europe’s first Maker Faire
- The Arduino Due is finally here
- Physical orangered notifies you of Reddit messages
- A harpsichord that plays itself
- Halloween Props: Spooky eyes light up the bushes
- SNES emulator has it’s slot sealed shut
- Robot performing a tightrope act
- APRS iGate built using a Raspberry Pi
- Red-bullet: cooking stove from cans, fueled by gas additive
- Building a Raspi case in true Hackaday fashion
- Stacking GPS, GSM, and an SD card into an Arduino shield
- Hackaday retro edition roundup
- Hacking Beer Cans for Fun and Publicity
- iPhone hack isn’t sold by adafruit
- The inner workings of servo motors
- 27 MHz transmitter/receiver pair made with 555 timers
- Open source finger prosthesis
- Hackaday Links: October 18, 2012
- Unlocking silk for uses as an optical, digital, biological, or food storage device
- Most useless machine: building elevator edition
- Creating a MIDI synth from a Commodore SID
- Android debug bridge released for the Raspi
- Tank tread robot build aims for a smooth ride
- GD-ROM drive emulated to use SD cards instead
- Reverse engineering Solari soft flap displays
- Nebulophone microcontroller synthesizer project sounds great
- Traffic light cufflinks
- Reproduce 3D printed models by making your own molds
- Moulding New Gears for a Micro Helicopter
- Reading an N64 controller with a microcontroller
- Tiny OLED oscilloscope gets a fancy case
- Directing an alarm system straight to the Internet
- Storing user data on your FPGA
- Weird Processing Unit only has 4 instructions
- LiPo Powered Stellaris Launchpad
- Magic Finger input device is a camera on your finger tip
- Face tracking with an Android device
- Mirage 2.0 Lights up the desert with 4,024 LEDs
- Arduino parking lot attendant
- Singing pumpkins
- Repairing a junked signal generator
- 7400 project encrypts and decrypts data
- Controlling a robot with your mind
- μJ, a Java virtual machine for microcontrollers
- Raspis with double the RAM in the wild
- Cheap spark detector for alpha particles
- Our first election hack that doesn’t involve e-ballots
- Have a baby? Build another one!
- Parts storage for all your components
- Using StellarisWare with the Launchpad
- Waterfall Swing Set
- DIY Tin Plating for Bus Bars
- Artemis Synthesizer Kit
- TouchIt Fabulously with other people on the Internet
- Making a Game Boy Color louder
- Digital marker communicates with touch screen
- Open source Android thermostat
- Cellular vehicle information and control
- Electric vehicle peripheral controller for the masses
- Turn your iPhone into a View-Master
- Configurable RFID tag from 7400 logic chips
- Emulators 101: how to write a program that functions like an NES CPU
- Arduino voice changer turns you into [Vader]
- Tripod Mount Anything!
- Still more software defined radio fun on the Mac
- LED matrix pendants
- Stellaris Launchpad library to drive the TM1638 UI board
- Nook Simple Touch as a glider computer
- Malting kiln controller for preparing beer brewing grains
- Building a better PID smoker controller
- Programming Tetris by first building a logic gate, then a computer, then…
- Acoustic barcodes deliver data with a fingernail and microphone
- Hackaday’s portal gun actually levitates a companion cube
- Getting Started with the Stellaris Launchpad
- Stare deep into this well-lit interactive infinity mirror
- Nixie Clock Without a PCB
- Motivating Engineering Students with Microcontrollers
- Build your own water rocket launcher
- Turning a plush Dalek into a WiFi enabled robot
- Edge-lit musical birthday card
- Raspberry Pi foundation looks at counterfeit Apple power supplies
- Giving the Rigol DS1052E ‘scope a spectrum analyzer
- Papercraft flash reflector
- Putting guitar pedals in a web page
- Desktop mill built as a high school project
- Using Arduino shields with the Raspi
- Free Software Foundation certifies hardware that Respects Your Freedom
- Playing around with MRAM
- 100,000 Lumen chandelier is like having the sun a few feet above your head
- New Hackaday template coming soon. Here’s your chance to make it better!
- Oscilloscope VFD repair like doing brain surgery on yourself
- Gravity bike
- Dummy load uses gray code to adjust load in small steps
- Exploiting DFU mode to snag a copy of firmware upgrades
- Teens pulled over while driving their wooden roadster
- Hackaday AMA happening right now at Reddit.
- Bootloader brings USB, firmware updating to the ATtiny85
- Bringing Java to the world of microcontrollers
- Single sided Arduino is a great introduction to PCB etching
- Hackaday’s duelling marble mazes are dead
- LED wand brings ergonomics to light painting
- PIC programming adapter for the Raspberry Pi
- STM32 driving a PCIe video card
- Ask Hackaday Anything over at Reddit tomorrow
- USB to RS-232 adapter hacked to use RS485 instead
- Sensor based dehumidifier system for your home
- Scary Putin guards your stash
- Building up an inventory of SMD parts
- OS X port of gqrx is the easiest way to get into software defined radio
- Hackaday retro roundup, this time with a PowerPC and a PET
- Giving the MSP430 a GUI
- A mobile electronics lab for all your projects
- Using UAVs to find mannequins lost in the outback
- freeSoC, for when you need 68 I/O pins
- Hackaday Links: October 6, 2012
- Hackaday-proofing your hackerspace’s server
- Web IDE for the Raspi
- Flashing LEDs protect livestock from lion attacks
- Getting a Nest thermostat to work in Europe
- stcdude is Linux friendly ISP programming software for STC 8051 chips
- There’s a friggin’ cellphone in the most recent Entertainment Weekly
- Rube Goldeberg mixes in Freerunning; reminds us of human-sized game of Mouse Trap
- LED cyber eyes; more nerdy than just taping your glasses
- [Ian’s] Global Geek Tour: New York
- Another Automatic Air Freshener Use
- A JavaScript interpreter for ARM ‘micros
- LED illuminated isomorphic keyboard looks as good as it sounds
- Jailbreaking the Kindle Paperwhite
- Making a nostalgic Apple mouse wireless
- 3D printing a rocket engine
- Try out your assembly and BASIC skills with a ZX Spectrum project
- Malicious Raspberry Pi power strip looks a bit scary
- Wrapping up Maker Faire with [Ben Heck], giant Arduinos, and an Apple Lisa
- DIY armor starts with this gauntlet tutorial
- How to convert an internal combustion engine to run from steam power
- [Limpkin’s] new business card
- Basking in the vintage glory of InfoAge
- Octopus submarine is something out of [Jules Verne]’s imagination
- Seeed Studio shows off their wares
- Building a tilt rotor UAV
- Light bulb efficiency exhibit updated with LED bulb option
- 200 pound, WiFi deploying robot ran over my foot
- Laser-etched LED zeotrope looks like a circular monochrome screen
- LVDS on an FPGA could make it possible to reuse laptops LCDs and the like
- Breadboarding with a 144-core processor
- Hackaday Links: October 3, 2012
- How TO dim EL wire: Current limiting the oscillator!
- Finally, an ARM-powered Arduino
- Through-hole electroplating in your home lab
- Intelligent autonomous vehicle makes it to Maker Faire
- Checking in with [Ian] from Dangerous Prototypes
- LEGO Record Player
- Controlling your webcam with an old Guitar Hero pedal
- Weather balloon payload that (almost) guides itself back to you
- Disassembling and reprogramming Webkeys
- Dry erase marker opens all hotel room doors
- How to watch your own videos on a plane: barf bag
- Decades old TV gets sleep function thanks to 7400 family of chips
- Professional looking dog robot was actually [Martin’s] Master’s Thesis
- Nintendo light gun retrofit lets it play color-based games
- iPad external battery case forced to work with a non-iPad tablet
- Whatever a phobia of fingers is called, this is it.
- Nixie suduku and on-die LEDs
- Escape from New York: Hackaday edition
- Picking locks with Toool
- Using a 555 timer and ADC as a random seed
- Tens of thousands saved by building a BAM microscope out of LEGO
- Fantastic programming makes this Arduino gaming device something special
- BrewPi is a Raspberry Pi in charge of beer fermentation
- Traffic lights tell you when your Xbox Live friends are gaming
- Build a POV Death Star, you will
- L.I.O.S.: The ten-ish dollar robot.
- Honey bee temperature logger tracks internal hive movement
- Running into the Form 1 printer at Maker Faire
- Test your project’s mettle with a protected dummy load
September 2012
- mbed and a few resistors runs console, VGA, and PS/2
- CNC Jacquard loom will weave anything
- Ginormous Ultimaker can print slightly smaller Ultimakers
- Rideable hexawalker is Chibikart’s kin
- Putting a workshop on your bike rack
- Tiny OLED o-scope fits on a breadboard
- Giving graphing calculators a new life
- New and improved DIWire Bender
- Fitting a CNC machine, 3D printer, and vinyl cutter in a suitcase
- Janus: The Gatekeeper
- Hackaday at the world MakerFaire in NY
- Water purification uses home-built electrolysis rig
- Fancy beer pong table cleans your balls
- How to build a foam machine for your next party
- How a quarter shrinker works
- Never pay more than $10 for a projector mount
- Hand cranked electric toy has no batteries or power supply
- Wearable Raspberry Pi turns you into the Borg
- Making logic gates out of crabs
- Massively parallel computer costs $99
- Doorbell to Internet bridge also useful for other home automation
- Rubik’s Cube for the blind
- How to make that old satellite dish cook all your meals
- Nyan Cat: the PlayStation game
- How to add audio in to the Sony NEX-5 line of DSLR cameras
- STM32 F4 Discovery tutorial using open source tools
- Tri-mounted monitors using strut channeling (no welding)
- Laser power system keeps UAVs flying indefinitely
- Hands on the Stellaris Launchpad
- Beginner’s look at On-Chip Debugging
- Motorized wheelchair built from LEGO pieces
- Quacking egg timer
- MIDI man-in-the-middle hack lets you add pedal to the mix
- Zelda engagement ring box seals the deal
- Hybrid rocket engine uses acrylic as fuel
- Astounding papercraft skills result in this working robot
- Crystal doorbell helps class up the joint
- Roll your own parabolic microphone
- Machine offers cheap advice – charges more for something profound
- Pan/Tilt wheel trainer ends up being a different way to play Quake
- Cryptography – learn what it’s all about
- Personal Energy Orb prevents your life from being swallowed by the Internets
- Wii Nunchuck controlled robot exhibits rock solid balancing
- Another great backyard observatory build
- This diy fume extractor will be a showpiece for your workbench
- Tutorial explains the concepts behind an IMU
- Making your anime papercraft move to the music
- Turning 3D prints into aluminum castings
- BaceMaker weds organ foot pedals with guitar whammy effects
- Kayak to sailboat conversion shows how to weld plastics
- Building an electric-powered longboard for under $100
- Repairing a VFD driver on a car stereo
- An actively cooled cloud chamber
- Garage door opener used to automatically lower a game table top
- Wiper Motor Motion Simulator
- StarGate Eggbeater
- UV LEDs expose PCBs, gives you a tan
- Adding digital readout to a non-CNC mill
- Turning a shipping container into a 3D printer
- Programming a microcontroller one bit at a time
- Kickstarter isn’t a store anymore
- LED array uses ridiculous amount of 14-segment displays
- Volumetric display projects 200 Million voxels per second
- USBPIC controls just about anything
- Mechanical Donkey Kong features laser cut Mario
- Speech recognition on an Arduino
- Communicating with a beam of light
- Adding Famicom audio channles to an NES without messing up the console
- Automated home brewing system has an insanely professional controller
- Wiring up a lot of LED segment displays
- NES light gun gets a burning laser upgrade
- Galaxy SIII hack puts Android in your dashboard
- Classic game of Snake on an ARM controller
- Hackaday Links: September 21, 2012
- Pulse jet tea kettle
- 3d printer filament made of wood
- Monetizing a hackerspace with a 3D printer store
- Coil gun with parts pulled from an electric stapler
- How to repair a ribbon cable connection on consumer electronics
- Dropping the nitrogen bomb in science class
- Key code door lock won’t endanger your security deposit
- How to build your own dedicated Pandora radio
- Programming an ARM with BASIC
- VFX1 Virtual Reality Headset LinkBox
- Token authentication for Gmail using a eZ430 Chronos watch
- Homebrew FPGAs
- Makerbot, Occupy Thingiverse, and the reality of selling Open Hardware
- Another eerily similar high power LED driver hack
- Reading bare NAND flash chips with a microcontroller
- Introducing the Makerbot Replicator 2
- Home automation hack controls lights based on head count
- 17-stage Great Ball Contraption must use all the LEGO pieces
- DIY flux comes straight from the tree
- Qube robots use well-designed laser-cut acrylic
- This hack can refill your Stratasys 3D printer
- Regarding the development files that accompany TI’s microcontroller offerings
- Retroball or Super Pong Table Grows Up
- Variable frequency laser using shaken ball bearings
- Using an undocumented display with an FPGA
- Popinator fires popcorn into your mouth, is probably a PR stunt
- Turning video game sprites into 3D objects
- Investigating the strength of the 4-digit PIN
- How to build an extremely powerful nerf gun
- Thousands of physical pixels turn these walls into a huge display
- Android Hack: Cracking WiFi passwords with your phone
- Tuitwall uses PHP-fed Arduino to display tweets
- Programming without a toolchain; crafting PIC op code by hand
- Self monitoring a home alarm system
- Center pivot pen plotter
- Giving the iPod Nano a home on a Honda dashboard
- Retrotectacular: Time Sharing
- Some technical improvements on [Alton Brown’s] hacked smoker
- QR code opens doors to you
- Vending machine prototyping
- Incredible fabrication process makes this Word Clock stand out
- Integrating a power bus into a quadcopter frame
- Scrolling tweets with a WiFi LED matrix
- Turning a Kindle into a weather display
- Help create a universal ARM programmer
- Building a bigger Shapeoko router
- An ice tube clock for the TI Launchpad
- [ch00ftech] Visits a Shenzhen Market
- GameGun makes Call of Duty more immersive
- A portable, WiFi-enabled Kinect
- Etching brass and copper with The Etchinator
- 700+ hp electric Honda S2000 built by High School senior
- Video Preview: New IOIO prototype
- How to make your own piezoelectric speaker
- Ask Hackaday: Who likes retrocomputing?
- Robotic odometry from an optical mouse
- Hackaday Links: Sept 15, 2012
- Helmet of many LEDs built for Burning Man
- 16×8 pixel laser projector
- Dinosaur hoodie to remind you Halloween approaches!!
- Sculpting with LCD pixels
- AVR programmer made without a programmer
- A truly professional Raspi analog input
- Dumping a C64 kernel
- Coilgun with laser sights built in an Airsoft rifle housing
- Testing 30 brands of batteries
- RC car upgraded to Bluetooth control
- Checking out Mount Olympus from 38 km
- Making plastic filament at home
- iOS terminal debugging tool
- Art Controller: relay board with switches for timing
- Radio built from the London Underground map
- Hackerspace intro: Xin Che Jian in Shanghai
- Building a passive 3D projection system in your attic
- 3D printer control for the Raspi
- Hacking the Peggy
- Measuring a pulse with infrared light
- Raspy Juice gives you serial ports and servo control
- Simple concepts behind complex coilguns
- Ugly upgrade keeps the tunes playing longer
- Building a Recirculating Infusion Mash System for your brewing pleasure
- VISUALIST – a hardware visual effects synthesizer
- 4″ seven segment displays make a fine scoreboard
- Building a Turing Machine from Magic the Gathering
- STM32 F3 Discovery dev board includes some extras
- [Quinn] resurrects an amplifier that experienced death-by-capacitor
- 64 Rasberry Pis turned into a supercomputer
- ATtiny controlled magic eye tube
- Generating random numbers from white noise
- Drag and drop code onto this ARM dev board
- Log guitar uses tube as a bridge, actually is the blues
- More LED Madness!
- Using a Raspberry Pi as your travel computer
- Hackaday links: September 11, 2012
- Augmented reality welding mask
- Preserve history and dispose of asbestos
- Full-color video on a spinning POV display
- Robot bar tender records wedding guests getting drunk
- Binoculars as a zoom lens
- IOIO controller replacement for an RC truck
- Typewriter is USB keyboard, also awesome
- Giving the Nexus 7 HD video recording
- Disco Planet, a massive RGBW LED array in a 6′ globe
- Bed of nails and accuracy in PCB manufacturing
- Breadboarding a 4-bit ALU
- Adding a sound synthesizer to a ‘don’t-touch-the-sides’ maze game
- 2708 EPROM dumper
- Mind-controlling cockroaches
- Rickrolling remote control prank
- Kalman filter keeps your bot balanced
- humanoid Robot Kinects with its enviroment
- Bits and Pieces Robotic Arm
- Getting around the Raspi’s USB Host current limit
- Sexy six axis robotic arm is a work of art
- Galago, the latest in a series of awesome ARM boards
- Put a solder mask on those homebrew PCBs
- Remote control does everything
- Eventorbot 3D Printer
- A watch for Curiosity’s drivers
- Genetic Research on the Cheap
- 3D games for the Arduino with raycasting
- It was only a matter of time before we saw Nixie modules for the Arduino
- The easiest way to dive in to ARM programming
- Wireless Upgrade for a Heathkit HERO 1 Robot
- Building a very low power, full featured desktop
- Hacking a floating RGB LED decorative ball
- Le-GoKART; a GoKart built entirely from Lego
- A fifty-dollar projection screen you can be proud of
- Building the best homebrew computer ever
- Beautifully crafted Geiger counter a must if you live in a hot zone
- Rotary and cordless phones mashup
- Cheetah robot can run down even the fastest of us
- Scratch-built RFID reader
- Adding ePaper navigation data to a sailboat
- Researching cosmic rays with cloud chambers
- Mixing video for old school effects
- Saving the ISS by hacking a toothbrush
- Putting 300 watts of LEDs on an RC plane
- Programming a Propeller on an ARM
- Hackaday links: September 7, 2012
- Electronic beer pong removes beer from the equation
- ProtoSynth, the prototyping synthesizer
- 2012 Open 7400 Logic Competition
- DIY ARM prototyping board
- Frequency analyzer built from the new Stellaris Launchpad
- 5-keg tap system treats your home brew right
- Hacking dog collars to save money on batteries.
- Building a classic coin-op game in an FPGA
- Can a robot be a safe and cost-effective alternative to guide dogs?
- Alarm system makes sure your moving truck doesn’t get raided
- Tank router defends your pets?
- Adding features to a DX6i transmitter
- iMac reborn with present-day parts
- Mess of wires is actually a one instruction computer
- Winning a no holds barred pinewood derby
- Meet the Teensy 3.0
- 70 watt amp uses an ATtiny
- The Python Programming Language For Physical Hacking
- Wireless stereo add-on turns on receiver and pipes in some music
- Rocket propellant manufactured from old newspaper
- Teensy board used as an AM radio transmitter
- Movie night at the lake cabin
- Homebrew 68k extravaganza
- Problems powering Raspberry Pi from GPIO header
- Open source brushless motor controller
- Zeppelin on the Fisher Price record player now thanks to a 3D printer
- Hands on with the Electric Imp
- Playing around with kerf bending
- Tindie is growing up
- Autonomous Plane? Quadrotor? Both? Meet the ATMOS!
- Carrot gun packs a punch; improves eyesight
- Switch mode breadboard supply from a PTH08080
- Building your own LED-based home lighting
- PIC-based USB conversion for an NES controller
- An STM32 processor powers this PC
- Steam-powered hexapod
- Displaying images on the surface of bubbles
- Simulating LED cubes in Blender
- Hacking your grill for performance and features
- For vacation on Hoth: Snow speeder sleds
- Make cell phone calls with your Arduino
- Saving a bricked phone with a pencil lead
- Help computer vision researchers, get a 3d model of your living room
- Building a PDA from scratch
- Labor day weekend water gun spectacular
- Lazy Labor day educational time. Watch Cornell’s microcontroller courses.
- Operating systems development with the Raspberry Pi
- Turning a MIDI sequencer display into a Tetris clone
- Homebrew computer is 16 bits of awesome
- Tracking a stolen laptop triggers a drug bust
- RC plane made specifically for UAVs
- DIY oculus rift VR
August 2012
- DIY laser cutter from non-DIY parts
- Hackaday Links August 31, 2012
- Taking moving time-lapse images over days at a time
- Preorder TI’s ARM Cortex-M4 Launchpad for $5 delivered
- What you can do when a Raspberry Pi teams up with an Arduino
- Replacing a finger or an arm in the hacker tradition
- A laser audio transmitter
- Propeller turned into chiptune player with a software SID
- The Simulacrum, an innovative solution to walking in Virtual Reality
- Raspberry Pi synth gives a softsynth dedicated hardware
- Dual core Arduino for more pins
- Doubling down on motor drivers
- Arduino Tachometer tutorial
- Word clock of a different nature
- Building touch sensors from digital barometer chips
- PlayStation gaming on a NOOK Simple Touch
- Can a Kickstarter project actually build a space elevator?
- Portable radio station gets a beautiful case
- AVR fuse bits explained
- Rebuilding the electronics in a remote control car
- Building a driver for absurdly high power LEDs
- Etching your own PCBs at home
- Party photo printer built around a Raspberry Pi
- Data from your coffee maker turned into art
- ARM-based debugging tool aims to improve on the Bus Pirate performance
- Gilded Hello Kitty ax made using electrolysis
- Umbrella-based windmills
- What does the government think about that drone in your home?
- Camera dollies hacked together by stop motion filmmakers
- How to Control Your Cheap RC Car with a Computer
- Forget treating your diabetes – use your insulin syringe as a logic probe
- Wide word-clock takes a modular approach
- Motorizing this trycicle
- Vitamin C used to detect the presence of Vanillin
- Inebriator Servers Up All the Cocktails
- Bluetooth control in a power strip
- Turning on PC speakers whenever there is music playing
- Robo Doc reads children’s pulses without scaring them
- Soft robots given veins the let them change their stripes
- Learning the ins and outs of USB with a simple dev board
- Turn your old Bluetooth headphones into a DIY car audio receiver
- BGA soldering with a paint stripper and stopwatch
- A desktop binary clock
- Reverse engineering a Syma 107 toy helicopter IR protocol
- Making images and videos using a diy fluoroscopic x-ray
- Build your own forge inside a gallon paint can
- Control your house by moving your arms like you’re directing traffic
- The shockerDrone; a shocking mod for the AR Drone
- There’s trouble brewin’ on the ‘ol Kickstarter site
- Measuring the speed of sound with science and statistics
- Turning a webcam into a spectrometer
- Making a spray booth from an old dishwasher
- Becoming Gallagher in your mind
- Multicolor print head allows RepRap to print rainbows
- 3D printed guns, laws and regulations, and philosophical discussions on the nature of printed objects
- Visualizing water droplets and building a CT scanner
- Recreating [Phillip K. Dick] in android form… and losing his head
- S.H.I.E.L.D. Heli Carrier brought to life
- How do squid react to being shocked to the beat of cypris hill?
- The dark pi rises
- Generating truly random sequences
- USB business card packs an ARM processor
- Should we make games for fish?
- Uncovering easter eggs in old Mac ROMs
- Hackerspace grand opening tonight in Portsmouth NH
- Volt meter clock also displays the temperature
- The $100 tri-copter
- 10bitworks shows us how to light up a synchronized swarm of LED jellyfish
- Extending the range of the AR Drone, 2 ways.
- Playing with DSP and building a guitar pedal
- Hackaday retro edition roundup
- Sadly, you can’t buy this hoverbike
- Hacking the AR Drone: Intro
- More small radio modules for your wireless needs
- Programming the ATtiny10 with an Arduino
- Hackaday Links August 23, 2012
- Help us decide if this huge reprap array is the largest fleet to date
- Controlling a quadcopter with a homebrew remote
- Network time clock for a home media center
- Cloning a water-based light wall project
- No secret knocks required at [Steve’s] house – your subway pass will do
- Control Raspi GPIO pins in the browser
- One dimensional PONG is a great use for LED strips
- Turning a DS into a Game Boy Advance
- Building a PBX setup around the Raspberry Pi
- Coin-based Rube Goldberg helps bring in donations
- Retrotechtacular: 1983’s answer to information overload
- Passion Fruit acquire laser defenses
- Portable light box for small photography needs
- Arduino WiFi shield available, costs $85 USD
- Building a resistor substitution decade box
- 128-inch silver screen for your viewing room
- Use a Nokia N82 TFT Panel with Your Arduino
- Lite Brites fade, but LED clocks are forever
- Making sure a baby is still breathing with lasers and a wiimote
- Eradicating invasive species with quadcopters
- Toorcamp: The Tesla Gun
- IR remote as PC input
- CMOS logic clock tracks 24-hour time
- Making a gigantic 18 pole 16 throw switch
- A visually satisfying tape ticker
- High voltage ROV adventures
- Summer vacation home for the indoor cats
- Raspberry Pi as an AVR programmer
- Rendering OpenSCAD in the browser
- New and improved old hackaday store!
- Reliving the BBS days with a Propeller
- Toorcamp: Nibble Node.js Widget
- Toorcamp: The Church of Robotron
- Controlling a spud gun with an Arduino
- Programming the XMEGA with an ISP
- Very inexpensive RF module tutorial
- Real time GPS decoding with software defined radio
- Toorcamp: Kelp Horns
- An Adafruit Raspberry Pi extravaganza
- Expand your pi with a Gertboard
- Making the Arduino sleep the long sleep
- CRT reborn as a planter
- Water glider prototype
- PIC 18F4550 dev board
- A huge microwave-powered bug zapper
- Raspberry Pi as a PIC programmer
- Turning [M. C. Escher] prints into real objects
- Femto-photography: Taking pictures of bullets made of light
- Prototyping with very, very small ICs
- Toorcamp: The Lock Picking Village
- We’re getting an Oculus Rift Dev Kit
- An in depth interview with [Jeri Ellsworth] about everything
- Inventor of the 555 timer passes away
- Turn signals on your head
- Washing machines that do it without electricity
- Autonomous fixed-wing drone threads the needled in a parking garage
- Raspberry Pi wedded to a DSLR
- Building an LED suit
- Adding inductive charging to an Android tablet
- Cat palace with an automatic heat lamp
- Toorcamp: Milling PCBs With KiCad
- Toorcamp: Type A Machines
- Toorcamp: Hackerbot Labs’ Giant FAA Approved Laser
- R2D2 drink dispenser will happily tinkle in your glass
- Laser diode controller for a CNC mill
- Arduino voltage measurement tricks
- Mechanical Skeeball built from Knex
- Connect 4 binary clock
- Automatic speaker control via TV
- Southwest Tour: Fablab in Tulsa Oklahoma
- Buying cheaper electronics and not saving money
- Toorcamp: Bliplace 2.0
- Hackaday Links: August 15, 2012
- Toorcamp: Quadcopter Controlled By a TI-84+
- Toothbrush timer
- Donation meter raises alarm when not plugged with coins
- Watering system for your vegetable garden
- Birth of an Arduino
- LEGO ROV without a tether
- Building a giant Game of Life spinner
- Turning a keyboard into a computer with a Raspberry Pi
- Making chiptunes with 32 bytes of RAM
- Servo controlled wine glass plays the music of the angels
- Toorcamp: Banana Piano
- Light painting with the Raspi
- Back up the band with some RGB stage lights
- Robot servo control using smartphone audio jack
- Toorcamp: MC Hawking Robotic Wheelchair
- How to design your own LED driver
- Toorcamp: The American Hacker Camp
- Work station includes a Smartcard lock for USB ports
- RGB chandelier may not fly with the wife
- Convert a speaker to a battery-powered amplifying party box
- Fauxrarri is the PPPRS Champion
- Southwest Tour: Scrap Tattoo Gun
- Flutter dress vibrates when it hears loud noises
- Copper vapor laser is amazing
- Southwest Tour: [Mikey Sklar’s] homestead
- Building a better Kinect with a… pager motor?
- Roomba 4000 teardown ready for your Doomba build
- Teensy tiny Arduino board with an ATtiny85
- A perpetually powered wireless outpost
- Taking a look at decapped ICs
- Building a casting furnace with heat exchanger
- The coming age of ARM chips for the hobbyist
- Writing Javascript without using any letters or numbers
- Hackaday Links: August 12, 2012
- A custom monitor mount built from wood
- Super Angry Birds is a physical controller for the game
- 3D printed exoskeleton helps this little girl develop more normal body function
- Southwest tour: Xerocraft in Tucson Arizona
- Earthworm robot does what earthworms do
- Painting a wall with light using water as ink
- Manpowered PVC Rollercoaster
- Announcing: International Hack Day, August 11th.
- Seeing through walls using WiFi
- Blinking light switch
- Building a coal forge
- How not to dim EL panels, TRIACs!
- Swapping out Eee PC BGA chip for 1.6 GHz upgrade
- NAS-based transcoding facilitates security cam viewing on iPhone
- ‘Vortex-drive’ for underwater ROV propulsion
- Fuse making machine
- TangiBot and the perils of Open Source Hardware
- Fortifying Veronica’s VGA output
- Robot cares for grave stones while honoring the dead
- Send your Nexus 7 back… to tighten one screw?
- Summer and Tailgating DIY Projects Roundup
- Robotic hand with haptic feedback
- Sound-o-Light: simple and interesting DIY speakers
- Largest CNC router is controlled by hand
- Southwest Tour: Heatsync Labs in Mesa Arizona
- Turning a 12 year old mill into a modern workhorse
- Exposing PCBs with a home made laser printer
- Making a game with capacitive touch
- Sparkfun recognized for their growth
- Hackaday is going to ToorCamp!
- [Limor Fried] (Adafruit) up for Entrepreneur of 2012 award
- Adding a serial trigger to a logic analyzer
- Hacking laser tag and building custom guns
- Pwdr, the open source powder printer
- Retrotechtacular: Simulating weather patterns with a logic chip computer
- Meet OSCAR, the Google Hangout robot
- DIY Flanagan Neurophone lets you hear with ultrasound
- Olympic shot machine pours one out for every US medal
- Dual-channel, variable voltage test box is a busy console modder’s dream
- Southwest tour: Quelab in Albuquerque New Mexico
- [Hacker Dojo] Renovations Kickstarter
- Knock lock balks knock, uses CapSense without shock
- Southwest tour: OhmSpace in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- Edison’s Cradle is a bright idea
- Yet another Arduino blinkenlight thing, actually pretty cool
- Drawing things very slowly, very easily
- POV bike wheels with the MSP430
- Curiosity landed, here’s the LEGO version
- Learn a new language with the Babel Fish
- biological-inspired robotic eye movements
- Control Giant Fireballs With Your Mind
- ReactionWare 3D printed medicine
- Making Music With Tennis Balls and Lego
- Not quite building a Raspi Arduino bridge
- Wireless sensors without a microcontroller
- N64 controller mod means playing games akimbo
- Turning an old keyboard into a work of art
- Mars Science Laboratory lands today
- Android controlled robot extravaganza
- Large version of Operation isn’t much easier than the original
- You are a sack of meat, easily punctured by Stompy
- Ask Hackaday: What’s your backup solution?
- node.js for Linux joysticks
- Dual PIR photo trigger by crossing the streams
- Building a SkyCam-like camera mount
- [Woz] prints and spends his own $2 bills
- Using an oscilloscope as a composite video adapter
- EMF oscilloscope probe
- Hackaday Links: August 3, 2012
- Electromagnetic Field Camp
- Moving an FPGA Project from VGA to DVI-D
- Another Android controlled roving robot
- Adafruit’s custom Rasp Pi distro eases some pain
- Robotic Manta Ray (Mantabot)
- Super Nincoffee Jr.
- Atomic clapperboard
- Home security anyone can build and install
- Building an isolation booth for your home recording studio
- CPLD motor control
- MythTV library on Apple TV without a jailbreak
- TI Launches C2000 Launchpad (featuring Billy Mays)
- Digital zoetrope uses 18 LCD displays
- Giving the TRS-80 CoCo a 44 color display
- Genezap improves your video game skills using corporal punishment
- Artificial skin lets robots feel
- TI’s inexpensive Piccolo and Stellaris dev boards
- NXT Android telepresence robot
- Electric paint brush loads itself with paint
- Android 4.0 on Raspberry Pi
- Never miss a roadside photo-op with an easy camera hack.
- Hacking the computer interface of a Ford Focus Mk2
- Digital TV converter reverse engineering
- Hackaday has won 1st place in the RedBull Creation contest!
- OLinuXino booting Android
- Displaying tweets with a laser pointer and speakers
- 4004 ROM emulator allows fast development on slow computers
- Hundred dollar capacitive discharge welder
- Telepresence robot with Skype connectivity
- Arduino Taipan! clone stays true to the original
July 2012
- Reworking the electronics for better computer speaker audio
- A look at the upgraded MSP430 chip shipping with the TI Launchpad
- MSP430 gaming shield based on the Gameduino
- Scale model of a Civil War mortar shoots steel golf balls
- Developing a better way to control 10,000 LEDs
- Mouth-powered tools that will make your dentist cringe
- Control everything in your car with the Car Kracker
- A Large Hexapod Made of Wood and PVC Pipe
- Automated turret gives you the upper hand in office warfare
- Ping pong ball barrage
- Magic clock locates your friends
- Getting connected with your home security system
- Hackathon results in the Facebook book
- Mechanical relay logic that was snubbed for a microcontroller
- Understanding op-amps from simple to hard
- Recovering from a Seagate HDD firmware bug
- [Dino] builds a Fetch-O-Matic for this month’s Make
- Reading punch cards with an Arduino and digital camera
- Gumball machine delivers ebooks and games to your phone
- Refurbing an old piano with carbon fiber
- Building the most offensive video game ever
- Checking network status with a traffic light
- Geigers on a plane
- Book Review: The Dangers of Computer Hacking
- Two hard disks and one DJ get down with no delay
- Reading analog sensors with the Raspberry Pi
- A Wireless MAME Coffee Table Controller
- Excavate Your Basement Using RC Equipment
- The Minotaur’s Revenge: Dueling Labyrinths
- Only you can kick a child’s balls into space
- Decoding NOAA weather radio with an Arduino
- Bending a home security control panel to your will
- Building a coffee roaster from junk
- Lab robot demonstrates mastery of culturing and other tasks
- Melting plastic powder together, one layer at a time
- Writing on LEDs with a laser pointer
- Drawbot software aims to do it better than the rest
- Building an artificial moon for Burning Man
- Gaining low-level SPI access on the Raspberry Pi
- Girl decides to restore a car in time for her 16th birthday
- A much larger rainbow board of many ping pongs
- Force carbonating root beer with dry ice
- Make a cardboard bookshelf in less than a day
- Designing a quadcopter brain PCB
- Adding payload to an RC cessna
- Bamboo Bike
- Box Maker extension for Inkscape
- Don’t ignore the middle of the country!
- Make your own custom iPhone back glass
- Know thy enemy: Open vias in BGA footprints
- Visualizing heat with Schlieren photography
- Hackaday southwest tour
- 3D Printed AR-15 Lower Works
- Bike made from cardboard is too cheap to steal
- Diablo 3 is an arcade game, apparently
- Morphield is a hot mess of wiring, also really cool
- Building a custom interface for surplus HF radios
- A mixer (re)built to travel
- Fabricating your own backpack straps for unorthodox uses
- Lighting controller counts how many people are in a room
- Spinning-hell of a game
- New cameras learning old lens tricks
- Arduino, resistor, and barrel plug lay waste to millions of hotel locks
- Adding Bluetooth audio playback to a Toyota Matrix
- Emulating the DCPU on an AVR
- Building a controller for MMOs
- Voting is open for the Red Bull Creation contest. Go Team Hackaday!
- Yet Another RepRap Host looks pretty cool
- Remote uploading to an Arduino with codebender
- Hackaday Links: July 25, 2012
- Raspberry Pi keeps tabs on your solar power setup
- How’s the 60Hz coming from your wall?
- Simple light painting bar build
- One remote to stream them all
- Shakey robot plays Angry Birds
- Key-covered textiles
- Heads up controls for your iPod
- [Dino’s] talking box(es)
- Reading Sega carts off a breadboard
- Raspberry Pi Case Roundup
- Motorized camera rig makes panoramic shooting simple
- Create a laminar flow jet without pesky fiber optics.
- Cutting a record… on a CD
- The proper way to put an Arduino in a Raspberry Pi
- Growerbot turns gardening into a science
- Blinkenwall controlled by a C64
- So you want to run a Kickstarter?
- Hacked ARM dev board gives you two for the price of one!
- Real Life Subtitle Glasses
- Using an IR remote with your Arduino
- Retrotechtacular: Recovering lost moon images by dumpster diving
- Vibrating gloves help bring back finger sensation after injury
- Power Pwn’s price tag is as dangerous as it’s black-hat uses
- Driving your home appliances with hybrid power
- Measuring how components react to extremely cold temperatures
- Task scheduler for Arduino
- Reverse engineering a Stylophone
- Editing your FPGA source
- Servos, servos, and more servos
- Chorded keyboard for touchscreens
- Building fiber optic chandeliers
- Building a steam punk style time and weather display
- Redesigning the RC tank
- DIY GLOBARS for nighttime bike visibility
- Picking handcuffs with laser cut keys
- Robot trash can catches anything you throw near it
- Giving an ATX bench supply the case it deserves
- Self balancing robot uses cascading PID algorithms
- Viewing CCTV on every street corner
- Building an autonomous robot from an Xbox 360 controller
- Retrotechtacular: The miracle of vacuum tubes
- Batarangs for The Dark Knight Rises
- Cutting islands into copper-clad PCBs with a drill
- Hackaday Links: July 20, 2012
- Using a watch to control Ms. Pacman
- Hackaday RBC team finished!
- Reclaiming the numpad for laptop users everywhere
- RC PVC bot
- Defense Against the Dog Arts
- From 0 to C: teaching programming without a computer
- Comparing Altium and Cadence PCB layout tools
- Flip-dot display is an advertising experience we can get behind
- USB dongle for unmodified NES controllers
- Automatic trough filler makes sure the animals have water
- The live streaming 72 hour build-off begins tonight!
- Use your TV remote as an HID mouse
- Father/son team goes big with backyard observatory
- Drag and drop images for 3D printing
- Small RC Car, Full Size Controller
- MIDI Swiss Army Knife built from an MSP430
- The many iterations of [Joe’s] PCB business card
- Monitoring your home energy use
- Sensordrone really does make your phone a tricoder
- A hardware random number generator for your FPGA
- Static testing hybrid rockets for a flight to space
- Sending a Raspberry Pi to 130,000 feet
- Hackaday Links July 18, 2012
- DMG Lib: Digital Mechanism and Gear Library
- Kegerator tallies your pints on Untappd while you sit back with a cold one
- Repurposing server PSU for your charging needs
- High speed photography controller built to catch water droplets
- Make your own magnetic ink
- Optical fiber twin-flash adapter
- Store your RFID transit card inside your cellphone
- Retrotechtacular: The birth of satellite communications
- Lightweight web server using the MSP430
- Finger recognition on the Kinect
- Make a game for a retro console, win prizes
- ATX benchtop conversion retains safety features, delivers plenty of current.
- Cracking open an ancient avionics gyroscope
- Scratch-built railroad crossing signal
- Re-engineering some FM transmitter firmware
- Summer travel is a breeze with this scooter trunk
- Automatic Daylight Saving Time compensation for your clock projects
- Glass PCB LED clock
- Firing rocket engines in the wrong direction — this is only a test
- How to earn your Hackaday skill badge
- Improve your vision with computer generated glasses
- Need a quadcopter transmitter? Use a PS2 controller!
- Dealing with the horrors of PDFs by binding your own books
- Rocket telemetry from UAV hardware
- Creating a decadent, insane, and depressed robot from Internet ramblings
- A detailed tutorial on speeding up AVR division
- A Replica DJ Controller to Rule them All
- LVL1 has a rocketeers group, is not working on ICBMs.
- Android oscilloscope built from parts just lying around
- XBMC hits Android
- Printing a boat made out of milk jugs
- Hacking a parallel port flash memory programmer
- Red Bull dispenser includes smokey presentation and rejects inferior drinks
- Any flavor sports drink at the push of a button
- I got 99 volts and my anodizing’s done!
- Sorting resistors with speech recognition
- GPS dog collar keeps track of your walks
- Hacking a Brother thermal printer to use non-OEM continuous rolls
- Fabricating headlights for an F250
- 3D printing with a delta robot that seems to simplify the concept
- Meizu MX rooted using the Bus Pirate
- Hackaday Links: July 13, 2012
- Joystick operated security cam will overlook the moat
- Laser light painting includes camera control
- Garage door opener now a bedroom door closer
- Playing Pong or Breakout on the Nexus Q
- Adding a heart rate monitor to your exercise equipment
- Cat trainer will keep them off the counters
- GSM controlled car without needing a microcontroller
- Digital picture frame that rotates to match image orientation
- Launching rockets and recording video
- Repurposing old HDD Components
- PhilRobokit Anito is not an Arduino
- Sonic screwdriver controls your TV, doesn’t work on wood
- Building a CRT and bathing yourself in x-rays
- Flying Batman is a load of bull
- [Todd] literally debugs this printing calculator
- Reading bar codes with Arduino and unaltered CueCat
- Energia brings Arduino IDE to the TI Launchpad
- Nyan Fax brings the celebrity kitty to your office
- Solar oven built to last
- Thinking outside the IDE to make a fast-counting Arduino
- EMIC2 text to speech module
- We made it into the RedBull creation finals!
- Two-stage rocket climbs to 15 km, promptly gets lost
- Turning the InnoTab into a Linux Tablet
- Remote control with an XBee and a Propeller
- Teaching a computer to learn
- Ouya, a $100 game console for indie developers
- BlinkM gets upgraded to a USB mass-market device
- Playing footsie with your video games
- Time-based One-Time Passwords with an Arduino
- Cheap as chips Arduino Ethernet shield
- Laser-charged glow in the dark message board
- A look inside what makes cruise control work
- Raspi contest to get the kids programming
- Bricking a Seagate drive while trying to make it work in an Xbox 360
- Exercise bike actuates your download speeds; messes with music playback
- RA 3D printer controller board does everything, has disco lights
- Simple solution makes rocket fin alignment a breeze
- Building a homebrew diesel ECU
- Tearing down Disney’s Glow with the Show props
- Custom Starcraft controller
- 16-bit HCMOS computer is a wire wrapping wonderland
- Cool Master advanced beer delivery system
- Software-Defined Radio remotely using a Linux wall wart
- [Jeri Ellsworth] on making her c64 bass keytar
- Pedal-powered 32-core ARM Linux server
- Tearing through floppy drives to build a small-format dot matrix printer
- Video-based radar for your car
- Logic analyzer add-on for the MSP430 Launchpad
- On not designing circuits with evolutionary algorithms
- Refurbing a C64 with a Raspberry Pi
- Make your own integrated circuits at home
- Bootable emulator for the DCPU
- Ask Hackaday: How about some model rocket hacks?
- Adding more frequencies to your software defined radio
- Proximity switch for your mains devices
- Tug of War… with your mind, man!
- Adding an auto-shutoff to the simplest of drip coffee makers
- Another switch mode regulator swap for the Raspberry Pi
- All-terrain electric scooter build
- Resurrecting a Hi-Fi cabinet
- Going to the park with your augmented reality girlfriend
- Monitoring a clothes washer with an accelerometer
- Keyless BMW cars prove to be very easy to steal
- Minot Makers launch red bull too!
- Set your Arduino free with wifino
- Data mining and saving money with Octopart’s historical pricing
- OpenGL on the Raspi
- Fritz’s, fast food with a robotic slant
- Lift beer with quadcopters, win prizes
- Android controlled monitor stand uses marbles as ball bearings
- Taking a moon light from grayscale to full color
- CNC zen gardening
- Ancient radio repair
- Acrylic RPi case you can make without a CNC machine
- Book Review: Eight Amazing Engineering Stories
- Turning a bunch of solenoids into a performance of Stomp
- 3D DLP printer builds an orange TARDIS
- Anti-Sanecraft ARTillery Cannon is farm boy engineering at its finest
- Reverse engineering silicon
- The cool kids all file their resistors for accuracy
- Facedancer board lets your Python programs pretend to be USB hardware
- Automatic beverage delivery system
- F/stop printer for analog printing black and white photos
- Television built from a tin can
- Raspberry Pi prototyping boards available at adafruit
- Flimsy Pi case still provides a level of protection
- Arduino rover evolves to a trike design
- Interfacing SNES controllers with your Raspberry Pi
- Library for driving SSD1289 LCD displays with small microcontrollers
- TI Chronos watch monitor your sleeping infant
- A resistor’s fiery death used to launch fireworks
- Roller coaster simulator for the Redbull creation contest
- Fifa looks at electronic augmentation
- Kansas City MakerFaire: Greentechweekly’s coverage
- The most surprising game of Simon you’ve every played
- Ask Hackaday: Who wants to build a function generator?
- MakerFaire K.C.: Power Wheels Racing
- Wireless Bullduino belt buckle sets the stage for romance, schtick
- [RobB’s] house has no light switches
- The excitement of ice fishing now from anywhere in the world
- Building a moat for your hackerspace; alligators, piranhas not included
- Levitating lightbulb does it all with no wires
- Ti Chronos watch controls Raspberry Pi
- Game of chance built as a Red Bull Creation entry
- Christmas prep starts early: MIDI control for strings of lights
- Two-thirds of a casting foundry
- Easy to build parts tumbler you can add to your shop
- [Dino] upgrades his robot chassis
- Noise pollution tit for tat uses the Baha Boys as a weapon
- Turning the red bull cannon to assault mode
- CNC Table Saw Jig
- Start thinking 4th dimensionally with a time circuit tutorial
- Dueling mechanical bulls
- Automated system hopes to make manual road patching a thing of the past
- Decoding RF link using a PC soundcard
- Lightsaber lets you pick just about any ‘blade’ color
- Timer-based cooling helps your network survive the summer
- Hack a Day’s entry into the Red Bull creation contest
- Junkyard scavenging nets a tachometer to play with
- Printing mounting boards and boxes for hobby projects
- Adding a bomb bay to a quadcopter
- Printing organs with a 3D printer
- Getting a console and Quake II running on a Raspberry Pi
- Open source synth sounds awesome
- Codebender: An online Arduino IDE
- Spoofing GPS and getting your own UAV
- Hackaday Links: July 1, 2012
- Test firing the largest amateur-built liquid fuel rocket engine
June 2012
- Raspberry Pi controlled tank goes deeper than you might think
- Computer desk… literally
- Raspberry Pi power regulator transplant reduces power consumption
- Under-bench timed outlets won’t let you leave the iron on
- Robot dares you to snatch the pebble from this flower
- Testing Lithium cells for use with a hybrid car
- A guide for laying out 4+ layer PCBs
- Electric bike (earplugs not included)
- A tale of (un)bricking a $10k Microsoft Surface unit
- Using your bench tools to test a new display
- Fighting over the Frat’s TV remote
- Self balancer does it differently than we’re used to seeing
- Two retro successes with a Commodore 64
- Raspberry Pi enclosure turns it into a desktop PC
- Two interesting boards coming down the pipe
- MakerFaire K.C.: Hexy, the $200 hexapod project
- Turning an Arduino into a USB keyboard
- Dollar store Terminator replica
- Linux picture frame serves as wireless Raspberry Pi display
- Building a CMOS clock on a breadboard
- An interview with Laen (the force behind Dorkbot PDX)
- Quadrotor opera begs for lasers and Pink Floyd
- Resurrecting a PS3 controller that won’t charge
- Using an HD44780 character LCD with the Raspberry Pi
- Building a pick and place with 3D printed parts
- MakerFaire K.C.: Incredible Wasp Wings
- VGA message board displays SMS without a computer
- DIY ROV explores the watery depths
- Penetration testing with the Raspberry Pi
- Roll your own battery backup system
- Cheat your way through the original Prince of Persia
- RickRolled by RedBull
- LiPo battery tester for solar vehicle battery array
- Ankle bracelet lets you become Emperor Palpatine
- Robotic rock-paper-scissors never lets you win
- Baking better bread with steam
- Getting started with software defined radio
- An Etsy for electronics
- Quick look at the Soldercore dev board
- Chiptune player uses preprocessed .MOD files
- NC Maker Faire 2012: Other Projects
- How about a nice game of Nixie chess?
- Encrypted drive attack hints at original Xbox hacking
- Simple ambilight clone is just a few transistors
- Urban farming uses aquaponics to make farmland where there is none
- Adding heat sinks to a Raspberry Pi
- Adding an OLED to a LEGO set
- Bench supply built in a power strip
- Salvaged robot arm used for light painting and pen plotting
- Maker Faire NC 2012: Electrical Vehicles
- Building a bench supply without altering the ATX psu
- Bike cross country in your basement with Google Streetview
- MakerFaire K.C. Kansas City Hackerspace delivers
- Building better cases with a laser cutter
- HackaDay is entering in the Redbull Creation Contest
- Bicycle quadcopter flies for dozens of seconds
- Taking a dump from some old hardware
- Offloading VGA generation onto a coprocessor
- Tricking the BeagleBone into outputting video
- Strange Login request at Hackaday.com
- Bench power supply resetting thingy
- Course correcting the Science Fiction genre
- Printing and programming a self-balancer
- Blinky headgear
- MakerFaire K.C. sneak peak at ArcAttack’s new toy
- Building a boombox where tools are meant to go
- Melting beer cans and building engines
- Better driving with a bullduino
- Don’t bring your 3d printer to MakerFaire
- Playing video on an 8-bit microcontroller
- MakerFaire K.C. First impressions
- [Sprite_tm] connects an LCD to a tiny Linux board
- Logging temperatures with an Etch-a-Sketch
- Knut logs data, sends it to your email
- Crayolascope turns flat displays into volumetric coolness
- Using the Raspi as an Ethernet shield
- NC Maker Faire 2012: Machine Tools and 3D Printers
- I/O extender board and case for a cheap WiFi router
- Red Bull Creation hardware (Bullduino) arrives
- DIY microcontroller-switched power strip
- Checking out the temperature of a Raspberry Pi
- CD/DVD Polisher may save your backups someday
- DEFCON 20 Tamper Evident contest signup
- Amateur radio field day is upon us
- A primer on dynamic loading
- Bring your LED matrix project into the living room
- Repairing a thermal imaging camera
- Are you smarter than a raccoon?
- Stair tricking skateboard
- Heading to MakerFaire Kansas City
- Hackaday Links: June 22, 2012
- Gooseberry is the latest ARM Linux board
- Bringing Chromium to the Raspberry Pi
- NC Maker Faire 2012: Hackaweek Display
- Analog soil moisture alarm
- Safe-Sync protects your camera from older high-voltage flash modules
- Hot enough for ya? Super-cold cocktail-pops will help
- Self-feeding pen printer
- Turning the Wii Classic Controller into a gaming rig
- Head-mounted memory catcher
- Building a clutch for vim
- Turning a Raspberry Pi into a laptop with a LapDock
- N64 in an N64 controller
- NC Maker Faire 2012: Robot Hockey
- Musical light show is far less complex than you might think
- Building a radio telescope for a school science project
- Using an Android as a webserver
- A closer looks helps you build your own DiWire Bender
- Cheap ARM netbooks have Linux forced upon them
- Revolight clone
- More DIY solder flux
- Communicating from inside your dreams
- Machining cartridge connectors from PCI sockets
- Parallax shows love for open source: GCC + Propeller
- AVC from the vehicle’s perspective
- Raleigh Maker Faire 2012
- SNES-001 Advance puts displays in the controllers
- Getting root on a Sony TV
- Cramming for Sparkfun’s Autonomous Vehicle Competition
- Milling a motorcycle engine
- Driving a Nokia QVGA screen with Arduino (or any uC)
- Hoisting a laser cutter to the 3rd floor (and other fun you’ll probably never have)
- Hackaday retro submission: Browsing with an Apple IIc
- Multi-system Nintendo emulator uses stock controllers
- Hacking together two shop vacuums
- [Bob’s] experience with Haxlr8r
- Blinky seesaw has ’em queuing at the playground
- Salvaged robot arm makes a big 3d printer
- Mini waterproof LED lanterns charge without wires
- STM32 demo code carries extra (hidden?) copyrights
- Multi-channel analog input module is a good jumping-off point for many projects
- Using solar cells to track the sun for your solar cells (dawg)
- Driving a PSP screen with an FPGA
- Shake phone to start scooter
- Motion sprinkler chases away defecating dogs
- Toaster oven reflow project goes way overboard
- New and improved Potentar
- Building a bug-zapping lightsaber
- A game of skill for the North Carolina Maker Faire
- A LEGO Turing machine for [Alan]’s centennial
- Fast and easy solder paste stencils
- Putting scores of Arduinos on the Internet with one router
- Emulating Mac System 7 on an Android device
- Lucid dreaming mask marries economy with comfort
- DIY EMG uses an audio recorder
- Hackaday Links: June 17, 2012
- Ask Hackaday: Has anyone built a radio telescope?
- Router controlling choo-choos over the CAN bus
- Using the GPIO pins on a Raspberry Pi
- BattMan II: the charger your batteries deserve
- Template for building STM32F0-Discovery project in GCC
- Finally, a 3D printer for burritos
- Recording off a reel-to-reel with a credit card reader
- Building your own atari cartridges
- Detecting cosmic rays with 18 Geiger tubes
- Two software defined radio hacks from our resident SDR guru
- ArduSat puts Arduino experiments in space
- Multimeter add-on lets you measure tiny resistance values
- HDTV antenna that can hang in a window
- Drop-in board for NES ROM chip makes cartridge reprogrammable
- Jamming gripper that’s super easy to build
- Stiltwalker beat audio reCAPTCHA
- 12 gauge shotgun bow: Real or Fake?
- Redbull’s new creation contest comes to your workshop
- Adding wireless to the Raspberry Pi
- Putting an Atari POKEY in your pocket
- Nook touch becomes a desktop computer
- Penny auction hacking; put on your statistician’s hat
- Embedded Linux meets Arduino with the Rascal Micro
- Mini Maker Faire in Eugene, OR this weekend
- Raspberry Pi finds itself inside a TRS-80 Model 100
- Volumetric display looks like a DaVinci sketch
- Using printf-style output to debug Arduino
- MakerFaire North Carolina, We’ll see you there!
- MITx 6.002x wraps up; here’s a review from one of the students
- The effect of code on power consumption
- Hands on with Raspbmc
- Counting bees
- [Ladyada’s] thoughts on quick-turn and small-run PCB houses
- Keep an eye on your palatial estate with this solar powered WiFi cam
- Traffic signal controller pulls data over WiFi
- Mantis9 PCB mill
- MyHDL Python programming option for FPGA
- Making giant wooden balls
- Toorcamp is coming!
- Two motor walking robot with a TI Launchpad
- Turning an IBM Selectric into a printer.
- Scraping blogs for fun and profit
- Brute forcing the password on a terribly insecure hard drive
- Open Rail, or, why didn’t we think of this?
- Adding the Apple ‘breathing LED’ to a motorcycle
- Hackaday Links: June 12, 2012
- Nah, you don’t need an Ethernet module for your Arduino
- Introducing Hack a Day: the retro edition
- Bending laser cut wood without steam or forms
- Building a foundry in your backyard
- How do atomic clocks work?
- A Simple RF Signal Strength Meter
- Swumanoid: a swimming humanoid robot
- Calculating with 3D printed gears
- Adding a router and wireless camera to a remote controlled helicopter
- [Balint] is starting a software-defined radio tutorial series
- Talking resistor calculator speaks component values
- Programming FPGAs with Python
- Adding a backlight to the ‘ol Game Boy brick
- making a light orb thingy
- Kinetic Space: software for your Kinect projects
- Using a router as a wireless embedded platform
- The first step to running iPhone apps in Linux
- Pingbot: adorable and fully documented
- Batbot: Building a functionally correct bat wing robot
- InMoov: a 3d printed animatronic hand you can download
- Free Linux computer from a printer’s WiFi card
- Autonomous robot uses an iPhone for its brain
- Theremin takes the touch out of multitouch
- Using old phones as an intercom in your VW bus (or anywhere else)
- A quick kludge to view the transit of Venus
- Pocketwatch retrofit takes input from accelerometer
- Building a 1980s microcomputer with a Parallax Propeller
- 555 business card
- WISP adds wifi to the Internet of things
- KMODDL: A mechanism maker’s dream site.
- Android CNC controller
- Smartphone controlled RGB lamp
- An appeal to Microsoft to consider the hackers
- Hackerspace Intro: Hacker Consortium in Nashville TN
- Incredible home made low cost CO2 Laser
- Shakerbot leverages inertial for locomotion
- Adding remote control to Klipsch surround system
- Where is my *%$#! virtual reality display?
- Simplest of SL4A microbridge examples
- Getting your stuff built: how to shop, conduct business, stay alive, and eat your way through Shenzhen
- Putting every chiptune ever in an FPGA
- Laser cutting in 3D
- Controlling a mouse with your voice
- Update: Androcade 2.0
- Seeing the Venus transit; this is why you should visit your local hackerspace
- Hackerspace Intro: Chatt*Lab in Chattanooga TN
- Bossy calendar tells visitors when to go away
- Make your next enclosure out of stone
- Automatic wakeboarding in a pond
- Visual rain sensor — so you never have to look outside
- Pneumatic car launcher is actually more than just a hacker’s fantasy
- Building a DIY GPS cube
- Electronic bike derailleur
- Outdoor stereo helps your neighbors learn to issue noise complaints
- Arduino rover doubles up on obstacle avoidance
- Retrotechtacular: The mother of all tech demos
- Homemade Silicon Carbide LED
- Blu-ray CNC looks great for branding and engraving
- Open source graphics card
- Large-scale Arduino controlled greenhouse does some serious farming
- Home automation with RC wall plugs and Raspberry Pi
- Tearing apart a hot glue gun for a 3D printer
- Update: many improvements to optical-sensor-based piano
- Chibikart: step-by-step lets you build your own tiny-wheel racer
- This is not real: lifelike renderings from Eagle files
- Simple power adapter thumbs its nose at proprietary connectors
- Open hardware Moodlamp with ATmega
- Bike alert tells drivers to back off
- Color multiplexing through fiber optics
- Tunes in the icebox
- New STM32 Discovery board can now be programmed on Linux
- Tracking small changes in video to see someone’s pulse
- Making flex sensors on the cheap
- Potting electronics with silicone
- Book Scanner Kits now available
- Wi-Fli copter broken? Harvest the parts!
- What’s inside a lightning arrestor?
- [Bill Porter] repairs a science museum exhibit
- Waterproofing an RC plane
- Hackerspace intro: Foothills Community Workshop in Granite Falls NC
- One console to rule them all
- Hackaday Links: June 3, 2012
- Copying complex objects in wood
- Piping micrometer data to a VGA
- Building an RGB mood lamp using an IKEA Mylonit
- PCB manufacturing tutorial
- Manga Guide to SMD
- Charting the efficiencies of boiling water
- [Easton’s] robot arm takes 2nd place in the International Science and Engineering Fair
- Shoulder robot for the forever alone
- Visualizing sound without a computer
- Building a Quiz-show style buzzer system
- Scratch-build garden nursery uses Arduino monitoring
- Making color matched Perler bead art
- NES controllers for any Bluetooth application
- Electronic bracer wraps a lot of features around your arm
- Adding voice labels to real life objects for the visually impaired
- BrainTap, gaming with arthritis in mind
- 3D mapping of huge areas with a Kinect
- How to Make a Whamola
- Yet another PCB quadcopter
- The Dronitar; a scrap made motorized sitar
- LayerOne badge hacking twofer
May 2012
- Catch neighborhood speeders with your webcam
- Robot arm provides haptic feedback from the virtual world
- ATtiny85 sketch flashing rig
- Hackerspace intros: Freeside hackerspace in Atlanta Georgia
- All-in-one all grain brewing for your kitchen counter
- Kilonode: how to test a huge Xbee mesh network
- 3d printing, the new frontier of piracy?
- Dot matrix printer spits out any tweet mentioning @KWF
- The biggest CNC machine can build a house
- Data logging directly to Google Docs (Google Drive)
- Triangle-grid LED display
- LED bicycle hack makes sure you’re seen at night
- Dollar store arc reactor build
- Remote shutter module uses LCD screen for setup
- A personal manufacturing Stack Exchange
- Pimp my scooter
- Video Review: STM32F0-Discovery board
- Morse code beacon wins the LayerOne badge hacking contest
- One Enormous Breadboard
- CalTech’s manipulator-arm equipped robot
- Hackerspace Introduction: 7hills makerspace in Rome Georgia
- OpenCV knows where you’re looking with eye tracking
- GPU programming for easy & fast image processing
- Brewing beer with LEGO
- Edwardian laptop from a steampunk master
- [Ian Lesnet]’s guide to the Bay Area Maker Faire
- 3d printing ice sculptures
- How anodization is used to make pretty iPod colors
- Using Spy-Bi-Wire with the MSP430 Launchpad
- Failed kayaking data logger is something we want to see succeed
- Physical email box — mail flag and all
- New IOIO in the works
- WebKit on Chumby lets developers avoid Flash
- Hackerspace introduction: Makers Local 256 in Huntsville Alabama
- Making an audio spectrum analyzer with a microcontroller
- Hackaday Links: May 29, 2012
- Climbing robot glues it’s own feet to the wall
- A sample player you can slip in your pocket
- A wedding cake made out of LEDs
- Building your own eye in the sky
- On-the-go tool wallet
- Building the backend of Internet controlled devices
- Hipster chandelier
- Turning a pedal-powered tractor into a Power Wheels
- Mini Pinball MAME machine is small enough to fit in any game room
- Turning a 1942 lathe into a functional piece of art
- Fine tune your Morse Code skills with this mint tin practice keyer
- The Styharp, an instrument modeled after a pig sty
- The bicycle can tell us how to make it better
- Making capacitive touch sensors with pencil and paper
- An Arduino Based Quadruped Robot
- Reading RFID cards from afar easily
- Motorized skateboard just begging to be your next project
- Reading wax cylinders with lasers
- Ask Hackaday: Troll Physics Super Deluxe Edition
- Small life on a character LCD
- Electric motorcycle is awesome, goes 54 mph
- Moppy lets you play your floppy drives
- Robot fish detect pollutants
- [Adam Savage] giving a speech about the maker movement
- Tornado lamp made with lasers
- Lighting up a runway into the garage
- CAPTCHA bot beats new Are You A Human PlayThru game
- Soldering from the hip
- Retrotechtacular: 7-function remote control color television
- Making a digital delay from a simple microcontroller
- Making Instagram with an old CRT
- Interview: [Vladimir Demin] the creator of the player guitar
- Lego for girls? [Limor] has some ideas.
- Review and a build: Makey Makey, a banana piano, and Mario
- Making music with radiation
- Classic VW bug stereo gets Bluetooth
- DIY solar collector boost your hot water system
- Hackaday Store: It exists again
- Grab your iron and add GameCube back to the Wii
- Arduino tells you how rough your last mountain bike ride was
- LayerOne badges stop bullets; drive away
- Hacking color and battery life on a solar powered garden light
- Cemetech’s ultimate calculator V2
- Building a travel trailer from the ground up
- Keeping an old 8mm projector alive with high-power LEDs
- Fisher-Price Record Player plays Stairway to Heaven
- Putting Linux on the Vtech InnoTab
- Building an x-ray machine and letting everything go to your head
- Robotic falconry: winged unit lands on you!
- APC Android computer isn’t a Raspberry Pi
- Hackerspace Intros: Squidfoo in Springfield, Missouri
- Laptop touchpad as a standalone peripheral
- Your face in chocolate
- Telepresence robot lets you play a hand of cards
- Power Index Window Display turns buildings into LED matrices
- Measuring projectiles with OpenChronometer
- Ironman replica twofer
- Build a levitating bed for under $1000
- [Jeri] builds a c64 bass Keytar
- SpaceX finally launches, [Scotty] makes it to space.
- Hot glue appendages may be predecessor to the flow metal of the T-1000
- Rebuilding a fried fan motor
- The Engineer Guy explains how MEMS accelerometer chips work
- Viper flight simulator (a la Battlestar Galactica) finished
- Gyroscopically stabilized car/motorcycle thing
- The most portable GameCube ever
- Update: using your forearms as a UI
- Automatic capacitor charger lets you have fun with sparks
- 3D printed circuit boards using conductive ink
- Macetech’s LED glasses prototype
- Win $40,000 for squirting plastic out of a nozzle
- More Kinect holograms from [programming4fun]
- 3D printing with Nylon for a more useful objects
- Volt teardown shows more than just what’s under the hood
- Man, stranded in the desert, makes a motorcycle from his broken car
- Heliowatcher positions solar panels for highest efficiency
- FTA dish used to receive L-band amateur radio
- Hackerspace Intro: STGO Makerspace in Santiago, Chile
- Salvaged LCD screen hacking
- Prototyping an advanced inductive charger
- A DSLR shutter cable for Android
- Player guitar sounds wonderful; makes us drool because of the complexity
- Hackaday Links: May 21, 2012
- Hackit: Leap Motions new motion sensor
- 3d printing a mini lathe
- Light trikes allow you to pedal for your life
- Getting great bootlegs with the bootlegMIC
- The pi pad
- iPhone charger teardown shows astounding miniaturization.
- Building a 6502 in Minecraft
- Rain activated light show in an umbrella
- DeLorean hovercraft
- Making real-life portals with a Kinect
- DIY spring and plate reverb
- Geeks living off the grid are hard on batteries
- Building a color sensor using luminosity
- Reminder: SpaceX launch tomorrow. Watch it live!
- Conductive ink circuit experiments
- Scavenging from consumer electronics to make a flame-powered phone charger
- Adding kilometers to a radio meant only for meters
- Printing circuitry on a RepRap
- Teaching BeagleBone to play with LIDD displays
- How to build a competitive battle robot
- Accelerometer may help make you a sharpshooter
- A new method for adding audio input to a Sansa Clip+
- SparkFun gets a Subpoena for all orders; says nah
- Improvised weapons roundup
- A color Maximite for glorious 3-bit BASIC
- A rocking and walking BEAM robot
- Mixing colors on the Reprap
- Hacking iPod headphone controller for use with Android
- 3d printed nes portable looks fantastic and contains no hot glue
- Building sensors for the Scratch programming language
- Retrotechtacular: Shakey shows off robotics innovation from 1972
- Giving a Powerpoint presentation with an Apple ][
- Cheap wooden hexapod frame greatly reduces cost
- Electric Imp connects projects to the Internet
- Snake-like robot can roll around in a ring
- Bananaphone lets you use fruit and other things as switches
- Time and date clock does it with RGB LED strips
- Building a Ranque-Hilsch vortex cooling tube
- A bit more about the diode
- Making a miniature X-Ray tube from scratch
- Brawndo Drinking Fountain – It’s Got What Geeks Crave!
- Tron costume fits nice and snug
- Solidoodle, a $500 3d printer
- Mother’s Day heart chaser
- Motion sensitive RGB lamp can standby for 3 years
- A simpler sous-vide hack
- iPhone wielding guitar adds tip of your finger or tip the instrument control
- Prototyping a solar charger for your truck
- Alarm clock wakes you like [Lawrence Welk]
- 3D gesture tracking with LIDAR
- Controlling a TV with a microcontroller
- Sell your projects with Club Jameco
- Turning an oscilloscope into a logic analyzer
- DIY Science – Acid/Base Natural Indicators
- Self-Powered USB Host mode on the HP Touchpad
- Cardboard Kinetic Creatures
- Constant current dummy load
- Universal 20 channel project controller from a Ps2 controller
- Controlling robots with a TRS-80
- Floating sensor networks
- Building a 4-bit TTL computer
- Building a sound reactive EL panel and learning something in the process
- [Engineerguy] explains how a CCD works
- An interview with [Justin Gray]
- I build stuff too! Fire Cannon Edition
- 3d printing saves the day for time-lapse photography
- Standalone USB temperature logger
- You’ll throw your back out playing this analog TV synth
- Mapping the surface of a video game moon
- Your mug on an Etch a Sketch — automatically
- Garden sensors measure soil moisture and greenhouse temperature
- Graphic equalizer display flashes LED sign to the beat
- Arduino compatible home automation for smart phone or voice control
- Helicopter light painting continues to snuff out physics lesson on your brain
- Recycle lithium cells by building custom flashlights
- Designing a self-replicating milling machine
- Hackaday around the web and into the future
- Improving a software defined radio with a few bits of wire
- Mapping the motor cortex
- The making of a Vacuum Tube
- Amphi-Cycle lets you ride the trails, the waves, and back again
- Getting started with OpenCV
- Accessing an SD card through a parallel port, just because
- More pins and more power with a DIY Sanguino
- Hacking magnets into your skin
- Hackaday Links May 13th 2012
- Hacking the Kingston Wi-Drive
- Putting a software defined radio on a mac
- Heathkit closes down, again.
- Destroying stuff for the good of all mankind
- Pipe crawling snake robot is a masterpiece of a senior project
- The trials of working with brushless DC motors for the first time.
- Monitor your heartbeat with a webcam and a flashlight
- Morse Code interpreter
- Digital stethoscope can record, playback, and analyzer heart sounds
- Defying gravity for new user interfaces
- Pleasing results from a CNC mill project
- Hackerspace Intro: TkkrLab in Enschede, Netherlands
- Golden spiral chicken coop
- Hackaday Links: May 11, 2012
- USB connectivity that is so very very small
- Tesla gun will probably kill something, sometime
- The WiiKart, a wireless go kart
- Digital Magic 8 Ball
- [Matt’s] bubble display updated
- Generating electricity with swing sets
- Project Octopus
- extremely detailed light painting bar
- A much easier take on an Android garage door opener
- Fuzzy time used to keep the kids in bed
- Building a bigger bar graph
- What the flux: buy it or brew it yourself
- Wireless iPod charger built from scratch
- Reverse engineering an RGB LED remote
- Your guide to building a homebrew 6502 computer
- Cruncher: A robotic toy dinosaur dissection
- Going from idea to schematic to printed PCB
- And so the deluge of resin-based 3D printers begins
- Are your PCBs being tested as claimed?
- UnoJoy makes your Arduino play well with Xbox 360 or PS3
- Hackerspace intros: egMakerSpace in East Gippsland Australia
- One wire reads the keypad from the APRS radio mic
- 3D sphere display and controller
- Flying microscope build seems way too nice for a home lab
- Level conversion with plenty of options
- Directly interfacing a joystick with an Xbee
- Electromagnetic harp with home made Ebows
- Music visualization generator with a Propeller
- Robotic light painting in 3D
- Hackaday Links May 9th 2012
- [Phil Torrone] interviews [Bunnie Huang] about chumby and more
- Making Laser adjustments with an SNES gamepad
- Tilt sensor toy is simple and mesmerizing
- An excellent introduction to transmission lines
- Metal detection using an inductor instead of a clock crystal.
- Light programming for a clock
- There’s more than meets the eye to this robot car
- RC car controller and receiver replacement
- Wristwatch measures your perception of time; also tells time
- You might be a geeky dad if: your kids practice spelling in Morse code
- Replicating the fancy touch sensor that uses anything
- A bit about the diode
- A Clockwork Useless Machine Prototype
- Pinball Stomp: Part 2
- Firefly cap has no battery and is meant for indoor light harvesting
- Program your Arduino via IR using the Arduino IDE
- Six-digit VFD alarm clock
- Sandbox topographical play gets a big resolution boost
- 16FUSB — it’s like V-USB for the PIC 16F628
- Fancy telemetry control display for a quadcopter
- Building Main Street, USA in a coffee table
- Beautiful wooden case for a portable NES
- Two saxophone synthesizer builds for the price of one
- Turning anything into a touch sensor
- Build an 8-bit TTL computer
- Building giant temperature displays from Gottlieb display wheels
- Automatic cat feeder made with recycled laminator parts
- Using Arduino shields with the Raspberry Pi
- Monitoring the status of a unisex bathroom
- Simple mod to keep your downstairs neighbors from hearing you pound the keys
- Converting a manual camera lens to use motorized zoom and focus
- Controlling Raspberry Pi expansion pins with a web interface
- Building a prosthetic leg from scratch
- Teaching correct hand movements with a Kinect
- Using pinball score reels as wireless displays
- Playing the song “Still Alive” on hacked exercise equipment
- [Jaimie’s] Giant Hexapod project
- Upgrading a digital multimeter to tell the temperature
- Arduino Uno BIOS flasher
- Sign and speak glove
- Chocolate extrusion printer is halfway to making s’mores
- Huge water and light VU meter plus more
- Automatic airplane tracking; what radar-systems engineers do for kicks
- DIWire Bender makes nearly any shape imaginable
- Reaching out to a touch screen with a microcontroller
- Creating a multimedia elevator ride
- Retrotechtacular: The Blit has given me access to the power of multiprogramming!
- Printing point-to-point circuits on a 3D printer
- The Gas Cap senses your flatulence and displays it on your forehead
- Arduino PIC programmer writes to 18F family
- Fairly simple hack makes Samsung TVs reboot forever
- An ATTiny13 makes May 13th brighter
- A 3D printed, electromechanical computer
- Watch a shop tour through the screen of an oscilloscope
- Machine learning lets micro decode your handwriting
- TI Launchpad as AVR ISP programmer
- BASIC for some beefy AVR chips
- Controlling a Propeller wirelessly with Bluetooth
- Hackerspace intros: Null Space Labs in Los Angeles California
- Reverse engineering a plasma dot matrix display
- Turning a light off over the Internet
- Meet Stompy, your new robotic overlord
- A fantastic acrylic light display
- Using an NES controller with an Atari 2600
- Arduino can program PIC too!
- Fiber optic chandelier with wireless controls
- Sun-powered Stirling engine with automatic tracking
- Surround Sound system controller replacement includes home automation
- Simple trick for replacing Game Boy cart batteries while retaining game saves
- Retrotechtacular: Introducing the brand new Acorn Risc Machine
- LED matrix shield starts with a very loud snap
- Using incandescent bulbs to compensate for a slow start cfl
- Hackerspace Intro: HeatSync Labs in Mesa Arizona
- Giant pink hexacopter is slightly safer than the rest
- ATiny powered Kinect fire cannons for dance Fx
- 7 foot long flying dragon breathes fire
- Build a rig to make orbs in your light paintings
- Playing Pong with your mind
- Arduino BASIC interpreter using LCD, keyboard, and SD
- GPIB connectivity twofer
- LED case lights reflect CPU usage
- Chicken coop door using threaded rod
- Drop everything and build this go-kart right now!
- Rail bike conversion is a success, and a failure
- Automated cat feeder with a view
- Keyboard composes its own music
- RCA Capacitive Electronic Disk
April 2012
- electronic table top catapult
- 6 camera face scanning rig
- Tindie: an etsy for electronics
- Quick and easy wildlife camera
- Inconspicuous guitar hack adds a lot of control to Max/MSP
- Signal sniffing some laundry pay cards
- LED clock lights up a dead Mac Mini
- Watch a rocket engine test live this afternoon
- Adding a remote shutter to a cheap digital camera
- Getting a textured 3D scan from just a webcam
- Multitouch table uses a Kinect for a 3D display
- Etching your own boards really, really fast
- Bitbanging Super Smash Bros.
- A novel binary clock from Hackaday’s own
- Hackaday Links: April 29, 2012
- Land ROV is Internet connected and packed full of stuff
- Interactive table is slightly different than most.
- Home brew motorized bicycle is a super grocery getter
- Iron casting in the parking lot
- Build your own radar system
- Printing custom whistles for everyone at your RepRap conference
- Nuka-Cola prop looks deliciously radioactive
- Retrotechtacular: Science fair robot ca. 1984
- Westport Mini Maker Faire is the first for Connecticut
- Pinball Stomp: part1
- Laser so easy to build anyone can burn their eyes out
- Hackerspace Intro: The Geek Group in Grand Rapids, Michigan
- Receiving asynchronous data bursts
- Scanning turntable digitizes objects as 3D models
- Text adventures for Arduino starting with Hunt the Wumpus
- A flashlight for any occasion
- Build a stereo microscope from binoculars and a camera lens
- Gigantic liquid crystal display is like a giant calculator
- A papercraft resistor calculator from Adafruit
- Pedal powered hydrofoil looks like a lot of fun
- Tiny N64 controller comes with hand-cramp guarantee
- Sip-and-Puff Ipod dock highlights assistive technology
- Time to get serious about going to LayerOne
- AVRphone is a barebones touchscreen cellphone
- Coating technique makes glass you can’t see
- Giant Space Invaders with road barriers and no moving parts
- Zen rock garden table uses magnets and sand
- [David] hand soldered a Blinky ball… and you can too!
- 3D whiteboard without the whiteboard
- Modeling an object with internal IMUs
- Micro Star Wars arcade game is a work of art
- µPhone is small and home made
- Hackerspace Intro: Hackerspace.gr in Athens Greece
- Micro Arduino bot skitters its way into our hearts.
- DIY cellphone
- 3 axis Accelerometer with LED bar displays
- Controlling the power with bluetooth
- Hacking the trampofoil to be pedal powered
- OBD-II TrckrX: data logging in a BMW E36 M3
- Incredible home made miniature engines
- Hackerspaces and Hackaday
- Sand casting motorcycle cases
- Automating household devices with Google Calendar
- Homebrew solder pot is too dangerous even for us
- Detecting ASCII art across the Internet
- A camera that describes a picture for you
- A blanket that detects its own orientation
- PiP-Boy 2000 build goes for function over form
- Dexterity enhancing guitar
- Climbing the mountain of quadcopter design
- CoolBot keeps your laser cutter from overheating
- Pong, an engine, and Bond theme (oh my!)
- Hacking the Chronos and exploring the ISM bands
- Making old organs more portable with MIDI
- Report from RoboGames 2012
- Printing PCBs on a junked Epson printer
- Finding the average of every font
- Build your next robot with Amazon supply
- Monitoring a solar array output
- 8-bit logic chip computer build
- Driving a T6963C based graphic LCD
- Cardboard hexapod gets around with three motors
- Cabbage haters can turn their leftovers into litmus paper
- MIT Students take Tetris to a grand scale
- Cheap and easy linear supported rail
- Tank Wars: a video game controlling a physical bot
- Finding your keys with Bluetooth
- Sculpting clay with sound
- Stop Motion Animation Creation
- Kits to fund Hackerspaces
- Automated bed leveling with our 3D printer
- Building new interfaces with an iPad
- Miniaturized N64 controller fits the tiniest of hands
- Slow motion destruction of random things
- Sassy disco bots of the 80s
- An easy to build cat feeder driven by a DIY linear actuator
- Visible Kitteh project keeps mice out of the house
- Science and engineering festival comes to DC
- Using a touch sensor as a telegraph key
- Valve scoops up bright young electrical engineers
- Chumby is no longer selling hardware
- Sparkfun Electronics launches an educational site
- (Model) Helicopter Physics
- [Linus] wins the Millennium Technology Prize
- DCPU-16 running Pac-Man
- Simple proximity sensor
- Computer control for your Xbox controller
- Building a computer with discrete transistors
- Building an Arduino Chiptunes project inside an FPGA
- A flight simulator made out of a real 737 cockpit
- Hackaday Links: April 20, 2012
- One Hackaday reader’s experience going on the Ben Heck show
- Real BMW dash cluster for your racing games
- Tearing down a colonoscopy pill camera
- Spend your weekend contributing to the exploration of space
- Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges!
- Improving a freestyle kayak
- Monitoring air quality with a $12 sensor
- Do anything with the help of lucid dreaming goggles
- Building the mind of a robot overlord
- Controlling blinkenlights with modern computers
- Automated Beer brewing
- 2 horse power 3 wheeled beast
- How to properly fly with electronics
- You’re invited to sift through 100 Terabytes of data for NASA
- Lego Mindstorms used to automate tedious laboratory tasks
- A 3D Pantograph
- Harnessing the electrical power of clams
- 2012 Robogames this weekend in San Mateo California
- Ethernet over telephone wire
- Steam fife
- Robotic whiteboard writes your wall on the wall
- Fifty dollars to make your car audio Bluetooth compatible
- Chess board step sequencer
- Preparing sushi with the help of lasers
- Reading credit cards with a tape head
- Multiple Marble Machine Mayhem
- Hackaday Links: April 18, 2012
- Android app review: ADSdroid gives you every datasheet, ever
- View Gerber files in 3d in your browser
- A locking chest with a musical key
- Tinkering with ODB II and the CAN bus
- Original Prince of Persia game source code released
- Emulating ARM on an 8-pin AVR
- He blinded me with backup lights
- Full Linux distro on a Nook color
- Forget Tupac, check out this front yard “hologram”
- All Aluminum Longboard Shows Its Mettle
- A new and improved magnetic cello
- Neosporin…the Retrobright for bench equipment?
- Communicating from anywhere with a SPOT Connect
- The MessagePad; a thoroughly hacked macbook turned tablet
- Flea market finds
- Shocking use of ice cube trays
- Joinery sure to be useful on your next sheet goods enclosure
- Mechanical CPU clock is just as confusing as its namesake
- Playing air traffic controller with software defined radio
- The put-put golf course every Hackerspace must build
- Motorcycle lighting upgrade ensures other drivers know you’re there
- Portal Radio is why Valve needs to build hardware
- DIY battery powered soldering iron
- Tiny Quadcopter gets an update, on the verge of flying without PC
- Upgrading a Rockford Fosgate Punch 601s to an 801s with just a handful of parts
- Barrel organ made from Lego plays the Star Wars theme
- A glorious mechanical seven segment display
- Playing Zork on the Arduino
- Printing anything with a thermal receipt printer
- Extending the range of wireless weather stations with walkie talkies
- Aquarium automation keeps the fish fed and the lights on
- IR helicopter controller hacked into a Linux game pad
- An iTunes rating box for everyone
- Racing with Dyson’s spare parts
- Those USB TV tuners used for SDR can also grab GPS data
- Stair accent lights made from cheap LED strips
- Free formed circuit protected by a brick of crystal clear resin
- Add a train horn to your Hoopty (earplugs not included)
- Arduino MIDI sequencer displays a lot of data
- Using diodes and transistors as solar cells
- QArt codes, the better way to put picture in a QR code
- This LED table really ties the room together
- Autonomous time lapse with a video camera throwie
- Open sourcing everything… there’s an app for that
- Conway’s Game of Life in HD
- Poking at the femtocell hardware in an AT&T Microcell
- Infrared hides code combination on geocache puzzle
- Floppy drive as an audio sampler
- Putting QR codes in copper
- Using GPS to stay aware of red light cameras
- DIY “Project Glass” clone looks almost too good to be true
- Building a game clock for Go or Chess
- Board lets you know when to hold ’em; know when to fold ’em
- Automated turntable photography
- Hackaday Links: April 11, 2012
- Experimenting with 8-bit graphics
- Separating a working scanner from its broken printer
- A six-year adventure into the world of CNC fabrication
- Simple tweak alerts you when you’ve left your headlights on
- Adding an electronic lock to a DIY book safe
- Advanced compass/accelerometer library for Arduino
- Veronica gets VRAM and its own boot logo
- Water Strider robot does it with Lego parts
- PS3 IR dongle tamed for use with a Linux box
- Building a word clock with genetic algorithms
- HTML based AVR compiler aims to make Arduino development on iOS possible
- Wooden CNC touch probe
- Wireless door alarms protect your stuff from afar
- A “Jukebox” In a Bell Jar
- Print in chocolate, sugar, and clay with a universal paste extruder
- Playing chiptunes with a YM2149 and optimizing an Arduino
- UPS with dead batteries reborn as a whole-house power backup
- Resizable ARM dev board; just take some off the top
- Apartment entry morse-code lock
- Harvesting and graphing wireless household utility meter info
- Measuring the capacities of different battery brands
- Projecting video directly onto the retina
- Getting 12 year olds to learn assembly programming
- Build an induction heater and become a metalsmith
- Want a two person self destruct button, but tired of pesky microcontrollers?
- CNC’d business cards will definitely get you noticed
- Google’s Project Glass and other head-mounted displays
- The teensiest Atari 2600 ever
- Tales from the Hackaday “tip line”
- CNC conversions with [Bob]
- Hackaday Links: April 7, 2012
- GSM modem means wireless serial connections
- Displaying bubbles in mineral oil
- A simple project to get you started with the Android ADK
- The best LED cube build we’ve seen
- Digital speedometer with an arduino
- Reverse engineering a Futaba SBUS remote control
- Quick and easy Arduino-powered theremin
- 3D printer with insane accuracy uses a DLP projector
- Hackaday Links April 5, 2012
- Custom heaters for a DIY BBQ smoker
- Make your RC car drive itself with this simple brain swap
- Facial recognition software can tell when you’re frustrated with Xbox Live
- Giving an old Atari computer a much needed upgrade
- Board games over IP means telepresence chess
- Auto-locking pet door ensures that your outdoor kitty obeys its curfew
- Closing in on Nixie cuff links
- Rabiscoscopio – Oscilloscope drawing made easy
- Recorder controlled Snake game played on a Nokia 6110
- Who needs mecanum wheels?
- Sliding camera mount is good enough for amateur photography
- Meet the TM65 liquid propellant rocket engine
- Working Tachikoma brings the manga to life
- DrummerBot joins the jam session when your bandmates are busy
- Sphere morphing hexabot now rolls around
- Old timey UAV cameras
- Whistle controls for you home electronics
- Slide rule for musical scales
- The trials of digital design class
- Building a media player with an MSP430
- Open source tracking system gets a Kickstarter
- We don’t need no stinkin’ packages!
- Soccer simulator rules a child’s birthday party
- Build an elevator controller, gain a friend for life
- Powering a robot with a macbook battery
- A Little Geneva Drive Made of Wood
- Updating your workspace for more organized and efficient hacking
- Quieting a pendulum clock every night
March 2012
- Sand Flea literally leaps tall buildings in a single bound
- Wireless camera mount offers pan and tilt functions
- Floppy autoloader takes the pain out of archiving 5000 Amiga disks
- Loudest telepresence robot ever
- New dirigibles are power plants in the sky
- 10,000 posts
- The RC transmitter that does everything
- Display made out of hundreds of seven segment LEDs
- Building a combination lock with logic chips
- Grabbing data from a Rigol ‘scope with Python
- Working software-defined radio with a TV tuner card.
- Quieting an inexpensive bench power supply
- 808 camera hack produces a time-lapse Tic Tac box
- Sentry gun controller-board upgrade
- Trumpet Hero
- Tricorder project brings the fabled devices into existence
- Rain barrel irrigation system keeps your plants fed when you’re too busy
- Glue Stick + Servo = Linear Actuator
- V-Synch detector lets you use 3D shutter glasses on Linux systems
- Android on your netbook
- Coin cell battery charger
- ATtiny44 drop-in replacement for Ikea Dioder’s stock PIC controller
- Building a better circuit for renewable energy harvesting
- Ask Hackaday: Building nano scale antennas
- Building the worst Linux PC ever
- Riding rockets and jets around the frozen wastes of Sweden
- Piano Box is a digital synthesizer made of paper
- Polish your understanding of capacitors by building this meter
- Resurrecting a cellphone with blown USB circuitry
- Collecting Radon data in the name of science and safety
- Building an artificial heart with ferrofluids
- [Aaron] shows us what life would be like if [Bob Vila] started hacking headphones
- Fool me once… or as often as possible
- Brute force a password protected PDF using the BeagleBone
- Digital gaming table made with no smoke, just a mirror
- Arduino aquarium lights
- Press play on tape for your Fignition
- Accelerometer-based game control using an iOS device courtesy of HTML5
- Bodging up a diesel motorcycle
- [Dino]’s one-year extravaganza is a laser oscillograph
- Putting multitasking on an AVR
- Turning a rotary tool into a PCB drill press
- Weightlifting coach will nag you about your form…at least until the batteries run dry
- Re-live 1978 in all its glory with the [Roth] Scream Box
- SimpleCortex, for when an Arduino is too wimpy
- Self-stabilizing autonomous bicycle
- Antique Electromechanical Calculating Machines
- Make your own Atomic clock
- Following faces with OpenCV and Arduino
- Burning plasma screen with breathtaking beauty
- SMDuino helps Arduino fit into tight places
- Adding speech control to an old robotic arm
- Cardboard framed tricopter
- Decoding, then cloning an IR helicopter toy’s control signals
- Electric poncho keeps you warm on the go
- Remove your Arduino’s external oscillator to gain a free pair of IO pins
- Baby’s first star light projector and a foil slip ring
- Adding new features and controlling a Kinect from a couch
- The first Raspberry Pi build is a MAME machine
- Kinect for Windows Resources
- Ancient laptop given new life as mobile prototyping platform
- Robot jellyfish fueled by hydrogen from the water around it
- Heads-up display mounts on brim of your cap
- Aquarium water exchanger built from Keurig parts
- Dead HDD smartphone stand still holds secret data
- Robotic assist helps paraplegic stand and move around
- Doppler-effect lets you add gestures to your computer
- The Pirate Bay aims for the clouds…literally
- Noise Reduction Techniques for Your Shop-Vac
- Arduino shield includes everything but the kitchen sink
- Hackaday Links: March 21, 2012
- Print your own Supercaps
- ATmega324 acts as a GPU for homebrew computer
- Software defined radio from a USB TV capture card
- Humanoid robot will eventually take over the world
- Birdwatching Meets a Computer-Controlled Water Cannon, Awesomeness Ensues
- Connecting toy blocks with a universal construction set
- When console modders face off, only good things happen
- Tearing down a failed LED bulb
- Android rolled into Linux kernel 3.3
- Never miss your transport with this bus arrival notifier
- Hot dirt keeps your plants happy in the winter months
- Hacking the green goose for fun and profit
- Another homebrew Segway clone comes in at under $300
- EL wire piping on a party couch
- [Ian] shops Seoul, South Korea
- Isomorphic piano keyboard is button madness
- Getting a home built scanner from ’92 up and running again
- Motor controller also does nyan cat
- A Full Auto PVC Battery Gun
- StorageBot finds all your components, makes your storage drawers feel inadequate
- Twittertape machine keeps track of your social media stock.
- DIY film projector fits in the palm of your hand
- The Gauntlet: A 1 Watt Laser Module
- Self-balancing transport is Arduino-controlled
- Automated sky tracking to catch UFOs
- Fashion leads to mind-controlled skirt-lifting contraption
- Hackday Links: March 16, 2012
- CRT vector graphics arcade game built from an FPGA board
- Becoming intelligent designers and saving the RepRap
- Using the nook as a keyboard
- Storing sketches in the cloud
- Analog clock display uses a Nipkow disk
- Color changing coaster has a built-in drink detector
- Kid-friendly RFID media center playlist control
- Twiddling an LED using the BeagleBone’s embedded Linux
- RFID playlists plus a QR code concept
- Gamelatron, a fully robotic indonesian Gamelan orchestra.
- Solar charging a Buddha Machine
- A simple touch interface for Music Player Daemon and more
- Bringing a 19th century stock ticker into the 21st century
- RFID jukebox for the kids
- Increasing a digital servo motor’s range of motion
- From reference design to USB sound card
- A better dust skirt for your CNC mill
- An inside look on how reed switches are manufactured
- “Machining” copper parts using Cupric Chloride
- Robotic doodle clock
- Poking machine
- Nanoscale 3D printing
- A Mannequin Head + Arduino + Webcam = Lots of Creepy Fun!
- USB controlled SPÖKA night light
- Fine-pitch SMD soldering with minimal tools
- Carabiner helps you hone your milling skills
- Reverse engineering old PDA software
- Playing MP3s from an FPGA
- Controlling a DSLR with a Nintendo DS
- Brewtarget: open source homebrewing
- Avoid shaky camera movements with gyroscopic stabilization
- Control an Arduino from Android over Bluetooth
- The spud gun to end all spud guns
- Portal mini golf hole will incinerate your ball…you monster
- Testing an open source PID controller with steak
- ecDB offers a simple, intuitive way to keep your electronic inventory organized
- Becoming the YouTube loading animation
- GeneBoy is the portable Sega Genesis you’ve always wanted
- Over engineering windshield wipers to sync to music
- Hackday Links: March 10, 2012
- Adding a laser sight to your drill press in just a few easy steps
- 3D printing from an Android device
- Steganography in xkcd comics without the img alt tag
- [Vijay Kumar’s] TED talk on the state of quadcopter research
- Chocolate as rocket fuel
- Tuna can and some other trash turned into a Stirling engine
- Build your own USB to Serial dongle
- Chipcon CC1110/CC1111 serial bootloader
- A capacitive discharge welder/cutter for all your lightweight needs
- Wireless solar water heater controller ensures hot water every time
- Installing military hardware in a home flight simulator
- Going old school with an 8051
- PushingBox alerts you of your cat’s roaming habits
- Old radio + old phone = Android media station
- Workout timer has its own fight bell
- LED tutorial demystifies several control techniques
- Reinventing The Clapper with a knock-based home automation controller
- Building a magnetic rotary encoder
- Hard resetting your Ford Touch system the easy way
- Reverse engineering a Nokia LCD
- Hackaday Links March 8th, 2012
- Toaster oven reflow soldering roundup
- Glove-based touch screen from a CRT monitor
- $10 camera module for your next FPGA project
- CAN bus for home automation
- Short and squat balancing bot is extremely stable
- Preheat alarm added to a basic kitchen oven
- Adding a lot of twinkle to this rebar sculpture
- Vintage VT100 terminal computing…with a Beaglebone
- Six foot speaker shakes buildings to their foundation
- Sensor rig finds out if motorists are sharing the road with cyclists
- Foot-controlled mouse keeps your hands on the keyboard
- Your theme song greets you at the front door
- Giant pencil used as an Etch a Sketch stylus
- Monitoring home electricity usage via a tidy wall display
- 3D Graphics on an oscilloscope
- Brewing up gunpowder with household products
- Freedom Toaster dispenses FOSS… for free
- Interesting substrate used to position LEDs of this Word Clock
- Dual-monitor work stations aims to keep you on the treadmill longer
- 8-bit computer project lands in a Philco radio case
- Loading programs onto a TRS-80 Model 100
- Reverse engineering an oscilloscope circumvents vendor crippleware
- SpeechJammer puts an end to annoying speakers
- Resetting the page count on a laser printer
- Pop-up dragonfly robot could be the future of business cards
- Control your PC with a remote
- USB dongle generates and enters your passwords so you don’t have to
- Antique phone provides a soundtrack perfect for restoring old cars
- Dell Streak screen repair yields a few welcome surprises
- Quadrotor squadron plays the [James Bond] theme song in preparation for world domination
- Easy workout logging with Ethernet-enabled exercise bike
- DyIO is a huge robotics development board
- Weekly Roundup 3/3/11
- Very easy 3D scanning software with ReconstructMe
- Building your own portable 3D camera
- Tutorial series shows you everything you need to salvage transformers from microwaves
- Snake-the-Planet makes a game board out of your surroundings
- Using the parallel port as a logic sniffer
- Simple hardware and Python drive this Splunk LED meter
- R2R ladder connects multiple buttons to one ADC pin
- Browser-based circuit simulator boasts a mountain of features
- Build your own line laser for 3D scanning
- Wind-powered POV weather station
- Monitoring and controlling your garage door from afar with an IP camera
- BB313 breadboard platform makes ATtiny prototyping painless
- Minestation – An external weather display for your Minecraft world
- A zoom lens for your webcam
- Auto power circuit for an arcade machine
- Klackerlaken gets the common man excited about electronics
- A one-bit processor
- Rolling digit clock is a wonderful piece of engineering
- Microsoft shows off their transparent 3D desktop prototype
- Billiards concepts plied to position acoustic panels
February 2012
- WAV playback with an ATmega32
- Wardriving for Zigbee
- Semaphore signal replica perfect for the train buff in your life
- Hackaday Links: Leap Day, 2012
- Projector calibration on uneven surfaces made easy
- Raspberry Pi launched
- Another take on using ‘dead’ batteries
- New extruder 3D prints tasty treats using chocolate
- Python PIC useful when attached to a computer
- Human-shaped planes troll NYC
- $15 toy becomes fully programmable robot
- Building a flex sensor from component packing materials
- Motorcycle engine hack like having an old F1 between your legs
- Reprogramming promotional USB dongles to launch custom URLs
- Check it out, my clothes are electric. No, seriously
- Shoulder mount for any camera
- Doubling up on the USB supercap flashlight
- USB slingshot controller is for the birds
- Squeezing the juice out of some AA batteries
- This image contains a hidden audio track
- Display Twitter on an Arduino
- Cheap and easy logic signal generator
- Tethering a Kindle for free 3G
- Finally, LaTeX in HTML files
- Visualizing a nanosecond
- Make any photo 3D using The Gimp
- DIY quadcopter for around $200
- Light painting with a string plotter
- Anodize titanium at home
- Adding footwell and glove box lights to your ride
- DIY intervalometer uses a great looking enclosure
- Investigating parking assist sensors
- IOU management for roommate chores
- Hackaday Links: February 26, 2012
- Giving old appliances a second life with simple tweaks
- Overbuilding an iTunes rating system
- Hacking Hack a Day with Greasemonkey
- Weekly Roundup 2/25/12
- 3D printed lugs for your custom bike
- All PCB quadcopter makes the most of each component
- Touch-based wirless RGB lamp control
- Winning video games by letting Arduino push your buttons
- Microcontroller gives you more control of your camera lens
- Rotating platform makes most useless machine concept useful
- Variable pitch quadrocopter flies upside down
- DIY Conductive ink lets you freehand circuits on the cheap
- Autonomous metal detector lets you sit back, get rich
- A TV-B-Gone with a PIC twist
- Multicolor RepRap prints the really, really hard way
- Worried about Haloween this Year? Why not a Giant T-Rex Costume?
- Checking the accuracy of fake watches
- Control MIDI with an Android device
- Doing it right with a morse code keyboard
- Electronic bag pipes need no bag and use only 1 pipe
- Backyard ski lift
- Automated squinting instead of glasses, contacts, or lasik
- Heatless compressed air dryer
- CNC milled bicycle frame jig
- Android 3.1 devices have USB host mode. Here’s how to use it.
- Projection screen using latex paint and sand blasting beads
- Up your FPGA game by learning from this LCD control prototype
- Retro hardware mash-up spouts archaic geekery
- Automatic Water for Your Pets
- Live out your inner animist with animatronic cat ears
- Hacking together a color changing water wall
- Data broacasting “Transparency Grenade” ads whimsy to your meetings
- Hidden bookshelf switch
- Who couldn’t use a little more screen space?
- Tired of the Normal Use for Your Toothbrush? Why not an Engraving Tool?
- Flash an Arduino from an SD card
- Laser Spirograph exhibit repair and upgrade
- Get neck-deep into ZigBee
- Repair a misbehaving motor controller board
- Sony Google TV devices running unsigned kernels
- 512k SRAM board for your next prototyping run
- Robot overlords require chores in return for technological access
- [Dick Tracy]’s watch gets night vision
- Handheld CNC fabrication
- Bringing the stars to your baby
- Hackaday Links: February 19, 2012
- Ask Hackaday: Did you catch the Grammys?
- The PANIC button saves you from bad music
- Weekly Roundup 2/18/12
- Control a playlist with your mind
- Edge-lit Nixie tube is sheer brilliance
- Wedding gift fail has happy couple cursing your name
- Collimated displays wrap around that home cockpit
- Hacking an AC outlet timer for project use
- Wire loop game penalizes for touches by shrinking your wand
- Kicad symbol generating script shows promise
- Rapid fire update brings many new features
- 384-LED ball receives animation wirelessly and knows its orientation
- Microswitch keyboard gives those lazy thumbs a workout
- Arduino saves you a bundle when it comes to guitar pedal effects
- Build an electric motorcycle
- Happy Late Lit Acrylic Valentines Day
- Tablet cover from old hardcover books
- A lot of love went into this glowing Valentine
- Space; it’s a junkyard until the Swiss get their way
- Hexbug code rewrite makes it a walking line-follower
- Intro to Phase-Locked Loops
- 3d printer software tutorials
- Etching PCBs with vinegar
- Building a keyboard from scratch
- Improving your flight sim experience with Hall effect sensors
- MITx first course announce – 6.002x: Circuits and Electronics
- Arduino lawn care is web-controlled
- Let there be light inside your Epilog laser cutter
- Take a picture of a bang with a camera sound trigger
- Tears from your lonely heart will activate a comforting tune
- Share a light-up LED heart with your valentine
- Passive Filters, Data Transmission and Equalization Oh My!
- AltSoftSerial looks to speed up Arduino software UART
- Connecting a dumb scale to your smartphone
- Fill in the bass on your PSP
- Wireless controllers for all your retro systems
- Gold leaf circuit board
- See in the dark with this bracelet build
- Puncher tracks your freelancing hours, time spent in TSA patdowns
- Monitoring software builds with a traffic light
- Hackaday Links: February 12, 2012
- Dye Mac Dye!
- Get tons of MIDI knobs and buttons with the Chomp
- Create PCBs in just minutes with this awesome spray etching machine
- CNC Light Painting
- Plotting pictures with light
- Weekly Roundup 2/11/12
- ElectroDroid – your Android electronic reference app
- POV clock spins light filter instead of LEDs
- Supercap lights your way in times of need
- Cockroft-Walton Multiplier can output positive or negative voltage
- JTAG dongle pushes code to FPGA after bootup
- Using a cheap accelerometer with Arduino comes with a catch
- The Ultimate Breadboard – a prototyping station that has it all
- Dice gauntlet joins cosplay with D&D gaming
- Suzuki V-Strom current gear indicator
- Playing video games for a college application
- MIDI controlled Speak-and-Spell
- Learning to use the V-USB (AVR USB firmware) library
- RFID reader gets user inputs and smart card write capability
- Make a Wind Turbine from 55 Gallon Drums
- Attiny25 Based Function Generator Causes a Wave
- Designing a Smarter RF transceiver
- Hackaday Links: February 8, 2012
- Single hand keyboard for tablets
- Quadcopter build ready for first flight
- Hydroponic strawberries sweeten up winter dolldrums
- Yet another 3D printer
- DIY Solid State Tesla Coil
- Bring your own name badge
- WiFi experiments with ATtiny microcontrollers
- Build your own 4-channel logic analyzer
- Web game bot coded with Python
- Circuit Playground – An electronics reference app from Adafruit
- Tweets send your balls flying (on TV)
- Color sensor gives the RGB values of anything
- Beer mini-kegs turned into a cyclonic dust collector
- Building LED walls on the cheap
- Play hide-and-go-seek with infrared LEDs
- Replacing a phantom limb with a Kinect
- Electronic candle protects sleeping infant
- Speedier hard disk option for your Mac Mini
- Robotic Etch-a-Sketch Draws Grayscale Images
- DIY Windows 8 Tablet
- Improving headphones by voiding warranties
- Self-tuning piano can tune itself, can’t tuna fish
- Printrbot files in the wild
- Build your own self-driving car
- Converting transparency sheets to an LCD monitor
- Reverse Engineering an AC Signal Protocol
- A.R.T. sorts your recyclables for you
- Using routers as displays
- Weekly Roundup 2/4/12
- Office game show buzzer keeps things fair and square
- Coffee table puts on a show behind smoked glass
- Reclaim the wireless controller module from a broken Xbox 360
- Dog Pod Grid one step closer to reality
- Printable wire stripper lights up when you hit the conductor
- Kitchen timer makes Mario your Sous-chef
- Measure radiation with military surplus
- Rapid fire, remote controlled ping pong ball turret
- Creating a Game for the CoCo
- Kinect for Windows released
- Resurrecting a Mac LC for server duties
- Earning a merit badge with a pinewood derby photo finish
- Last century’s guided missile steps aside for this guided bullet
- Flexible web interface makes the universal remote nearly perfect
- Lens adapter from a plastic soda bottle
- Reading diodes to create a thermal imaging system
- Hackaday Links: February 1, 2012
- A USB-controlled Solder Reflow Oven
- WiFi garage door opener makes forgotten keys a thing of the past
January 2012
- Turning the Big Trak into a Turtle
- Reverse Engineering a 1.5 inch Photoframe
- Weapon of mass graffiti
- Overclocking a Starfox game cartridge
- Telegraph key makes for a fantastic Twitter input
- Using Google documents as a web proxy
- NAS firmware hack: Synology running on QNAP hardware
- 3D Print in Wax, Cast in Metal
- Fractal viewer can zoom and enhance like on CSI
- A SOPA we still can’t get behind
- Firmware programmer for a cheap Bluetooth module
- Easy tactile controls and displays for your flight simulator
- Lamp upgrade makes you a hot-head
- Adding visuals to chiptune performances
- Paint your pictures, no PC needed
- Powering an Ultrasonic Transducer
- Simulated dashboard for a simulated race
- LiPo charging circuit tutorial
- The Fukushima Robot Diaries
- Petition for DMCA exemptions regarding Rooting/unlocking gadgets
- Weekly roundup 1/28/12
- Followup: Troll physics solved
- DSLR performance measured with audio editing software
- [Jackson Pollock] is now a robot
- How to add flair to a webpage that shows your project data
- Synthesize with a hard drive
- @publictextbox is a Twitter enabled phone booth
- Sixty4Racer an 8×8 Game
- Analog Joypad for your Retro PC
- Program a microcontroller over the Internet
- [Sprite_tm]’s three-component FM transmitter
- Jam a remote helicopter
- Real-time depth smoothing for the Kinect
- Rotary phone-light-amp could be filed under bizarre
- Very accurate clock can’t be read accurately
- Modular controllers you can’t wait to show off to your friends
- Tutorial: Build a manifold clock for $10
- Control Android with a projector and Kinect
- Challenge: Figure out how this logic-based chaser works
- Custom microcontroller using only a Dremel
- Bending a printer control board to output POV messages
- Stop light converted to control office foot traffic
- Hide your repeater and gain a radio
- The Phone Box
- Converting a mill to CNC
- Hackaday Links: January 24, 2012
- Raspberry Pi runs XBMC; reliably decodes 1080p
- Remote entry via Android and Launchpad
- A More Awesome Way to Play Jenga
- A simple, self-contained 7-segment display
- Investigating the generative properties of a stepper motor
- Espresso upgrade gives you more data with your caffeine
- Matrix backpack was a fun design project
- Reviewing the numbers from one month of solar harvesting
- Whac-A-Banker to relieve your frustration
- Controlling an LED matrix with an Android phone
- Maximite harkens back to the days of BASIC
- 3D printed helicopter blades
- Shove a Hub into That Keyboard
- Make a simple O-scope with a FTDI board and a couple of ADC’s
- Weekly Roundup 1/21/12
- PVC Magnetometer to measure magnetic storms
- Overlaying video on encrypted HDMI connections
- FLORA: a better Arduino LilyPad
- Trashed Hard Drive? Why not an Engraved Clock?
- Computing with the command line
- A talking reverse geocache puzzle box
- Numerous quiz buttons built on the cheap
- Simple machining process repairs broken control knob
- FPGA Snake game uses no VHDL at all
- Tubular POV display
- DIY ultrasonic plastic welding
- NES controller uses capacitive touch instead of buttons
- Ball-in-maze game shows creativity and classic 8-bit sound
- Complete guide to compiling OpenWRT
- NES controller cannibalized for MP3 player enclosure
- Fix broken buttons on your ASUS computer monitors
- Adding digital game indicators to a Neo Geo arcade cabinet
- Controlling a cute Ikea night light with Android on the cheap
- Reverse Geocache box looks great and packed with features
- Doom for your calculator gets a color upgrade
- Building a Variable Frequency Drive for a three-phase motor
- Reusing an old pacemaker as a flash timer
- Stop the Internet Blacklist Legislation
- Forget Siri – make Wolfram Alpha your personal assistant
- Commandeer X10-based home automation with your favorite microcontroller
- Sensor array tries to outdo the other guys
- Tutorial: replacing bad capacitors
- Augmented reality using Pez dispensers
- Adding sound to Children’s Museum exhibits
- The EMGRobotics Robot Control Board
- Music box is still alive with wavetable synthesis
- Intelligent flashlight will literally show you the way
- $3 adds sweet tunes to your project
- Just in case you didn’t know how awesome laser cutters really are
- Electronics that tell you to wash the dishes
- Wii Nunchuck on an 80s computer
- The TIM-8 is the smallest 8-bit relay computer ever
- Hackaday Links: January 16, 2012
- Turn your camera phone into a Geiger counter
- Nice shoes, wanna recognize some input?
- DIY dimmable clapper for all your lazy lighting needs
- Sound-reactive EL wire box makes gift giving awesome
- Freeze drying astronaut ice cream
- [Jamie Zawinski] controls his drapes from the command line
- Weekly roundup 1/14/12
- Python maps mouse movements on an LED matrix
- Laser-triggered camera rig update: 2011 version
- [Grenadier] wins the laser cutter for his portable X-ray project
- Replacing an overheating tablet power supply
- Tool box light dimmer helps out a friend, offers up design tips
- [Pythagoras], a Delta Robot for Drawing
- Building a LED strip the minimal way
- Hackaday Links: January 13
- An e-paper information panel
- Automating the shutdown of APC UPS devices
- Boxie is an adorable toddler videographer
- Cheap WiFi bridge for pen testing or otherwise
- Oscilloscope clock made possible by dumpster diving
- Hellduino: Hellschreiber radio transmissions from an Arduino board
- Fully loaded electronics lab makes your projects a breeze
- Fixing the control scheme for an aftermarket headlight assembly
- Robot takes voice commands via open source CSR
- DHT11 humidity and temperature sensor package
- Adjustable rapid fire for Xbox 360 controller
- Power Wheels Jeep makes an awesome R/C car
- Building an EEPROM programmer
- Microcontroller based audio volume level compressor
- Matchbox launcher reacts to emergency band radio dispatcher
- More laser shooting range goodness; now with duckies
- 3D printed zoetrope
- Universal Commodore 64 cartridge speeds up demo production
- This digital picture frame runs Linux better than you might think
- Unshredding Paper
- Using a touch screen with an STM32 microcontroller
- Hackaday Links: January 10, 2012
- Crank out the jams with [Dino]’s Fuzz Face
- Help [Chris] boot his Cray-1 supercomputer
- Print huge stuff with the Makerbot Replicator
- Build an intervalometer with these simple fabrication techniques
- Rainbow Machine livens up any photograph
- Using a Mac and XCode as a Linux development platform
- A Salinometer built for the Science Olympiad
- The matrix reloaded: now better than the movie
- Projector project bears no fruit but it was a fun ride
- DIY Fresnel reflector
- Got Dead Bugs In Your Stereo?
- Programming AVR I2C Interface
- [Alex] shows us what happens when Dance Dance Revolution meets Simon
- DIY shade finder tool takes the tedium out of solar surveys
- Rainbow board of many ping-pong balls
- Using 555 timers to add “free play” functionality to classic arcade machines
- Minimalist RGB LED cube has a very short BoM
- Ancient mouse teardown and repair
- Remove Function Lock Key with a 4016 and a 555
- A bicycle built for… Siamese twins?
- Treaded robot modified for stair climbing
- 737 cockpit will satisfy even the most discriminating simulator afficiandos
- Running the numbers on a cheap PSU
- Need a Hand Drying Those Gloves?
- 3D printing Minecraft worlds
- GSM remote control with the TiDiGino
- A Little Simon Clone Named [Nomis]
- OK, you might not be paranoid – perhaps that priority mail box IS spying on you
- Followup: Reproducing impossible circuits
- Giving the Hexbug Spider freedom to explore on its own
- Self Balancing Robot with Wii parts
- Hackaday Links: January 5, 2012
- LED cube is a little bit of kit, a lot of point-to-point soldering
- osPID: the Open Source PID Controller
- Custom screensaver on the non-touch Kindle 4
- Bang-banging your way to a perfect cake
- Reading NAND flash with an Arduino
- Milling ice molds for craft cocktails
- Exposing some fake electronics with too-good-to-be-true prices
- Line-follower is an homage to [Homer]; plans to infringe copyrights
- Over-engineering a two-zone thermometer
- Power protection circuit tutorial
- Backplane and mainboard for a 6502 computer
- Easy camera tracking with a quadrocopter
- Securing your Keurig with RFID
- Laser shooting gallery made from scrap
- Voting is open for the Buildlounge laser cutter contest
- Portable electronic drum kit made from plastic bowls
- Neural networks control a toy car
- Two player Space Invaders via FPGAs
- Arduino heliostat calculates the position of the sun
- Arcade controller will give you button envy
- Hackaday Links: January 2, 2012
- The GATARI “2600” Musical Instrument
- Watch all of the freshly published talks from 28c3
- Easy rotary encoding for your projects
- Pep up your house cat’s boring wintertime life
- Give yourself a sixth sense on the cheap
- See through everything with a home made x-ray
- Hackerspace light wall plays video at 30 fps
- A very detailed reflow oven build
- Making pure caffeine at home
- Sound reactive Kanye glasses!